- Malinké
ethnic group
group=Malinké
poptime=7.75 million
popplace=Guinea ,Mali ,Ivory Coast ,Senegal ,The Gambia ,Sierra Leone ,Burkina Faso ,Guinea Bissau ,Liberia ,Ghana
rels=Sunni Islam
langs=Maninka
related-c=otherMandé The Malinké or Maninka are a part of
Mandé inAfrica .Approximately 7,750,000 Malinké are scattered throughout
West Africa , including:*
Guinea - 2.8 million
*Mali - 1.1 million
*Ivory Coast - 1.0 million
*Senegal - 1.0 million
*Gambia - 600,000
*Sierra Leone - 400,000
*Burkina Faso - 400,000
*Guinea-Bissau - 200,000
*Liberia - 100,000
*Ghana - 100,000They do not form a majority group in any of the above countries. In Gambia they represent approx. 39% of the country's total population, in Guinea 32% and in Guinea-Bissau 14%. Fact|date=September 2007
They speak Malinké or "Maninkakan", one of the
Manding languages . The Malinké are generallyMuslim , having abandoned earlier pantheist beliefs.Traditionally they are subsistence farmers, growing small cash crops of
peanut s andmillet in theSahel Africa region.The "Malinke Empire" is an ethnic entity governed from its capital of
Kangaba since the8th century .External links
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/malinke.html mnsu.edu Malinke]
* [http://www.rootsyrecords.com A website devoted to Malinke djembe drumming]
* [http://www.beatroot.2itb.com A UK based website devoted to playing Malinke djembe rhythms]ee also
*
Mali Empire
*Mandinka people
*Mandé
*Mande languages
*Manding languages
*Mandinka language
*Griot
*Djembe
*Kora (instrument)
*Mane, Malian Soldiers
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