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Bookmark or Share- Soninke people - WikiwandThe Soninke people are a West African Mande-speaking ethnic group found in Mali, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea. They speak the Soninke language, also called the Serakhulle or Azer language, which is one of the Mande languages.
- The intriguing history of the Soninke people who founded the famous ...Known by a variety of names, including Sarakole, Diankanke, and Wangarawa, the Soninke are Mande-speaking people of West Africa found in eastern Senegal and its capital Dakar, northwestern Mali...
- History of the Soninke people - WikipediaThe Soninke people are a West African ethnic group that is spread widely over the Sahel region. Their history, as recorded in oral traditions, medieval Arab writings, and modern archaeological and linguistic studies, extends into the first millenium BCE.
- Soninke | West African, Mande, Mali Empire | BritannicaSoninke, a people located in Senegal near Bakel on the Sénégal River and in neighbouring areas of West Africa. They speak a Mande language of the Niger-Congo family. Some Senegalese Soninke have migrated to Dakar, but the population in the Bakel area remain farmers whose chief crop is millet.
- The Soninke in Ancient West African History - Oxford Research EncyclopediasThe Soninke are the founder of the first West African empire, Ghana, which they themselves call Wagadu, from the 6th to the 12th centuries ad Ghana was wealthy and powerful due to its access to gold, its geographic location between the Sahara and the Sahel, and its opening of trade routes from these ecological zones into the West African forest.
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