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The Mandara people, also known as Wandala or Mandwara, are a Central African traditionalist ethnic group found in north Cameroon northeastern Nigeria, and southeastern Chad. [4] They speak the Wandala language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic Language family.
Sultan Bukar Afade c. 1911/15.. Tradition states that Mandara was founded shortly before 1500 by a female ruler named Soukda and a non-Mandarawa hunter named Gaya.The kingdom was first referred to by Fra Mauro (in 1459) and Leo Africanus (in 1526); the provenance of its name remains uncertain.
The Mandara were driven off their native grounds by a Völkerwanderung, or tribal migration phase in northwestern Australia that took place shortly before actually contact with Europeans occurred, in which the Kurrama pressured the Panyjima, who in turn moved southeast to exert pressure on tribes like the Mandara.
Mandara or Mandala, Hindu and Buddhist religious object or symbol; Mandara people (Australia), an Australian Aboriginal tribe; Mandara tree, the legume Erythrina stricta; Mandaraba tree, the Indian Coral Tree (Erythrina variegata) The crown flower plant Calotropis gigantea; Mount Mandara, a mythical mountain in the Hindu Puranas
Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.
The Biu–Mandara or Central Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon. A reconstruction of Proto-Central Chadic has been proposed by Gravina (2014). [ 1 ]
The Kirdi (/ ˈ k ɜːr d ɪ /) are the many cultures and ethnic groups who inhabit northwestern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria.. The term was applied to various ethnic groups who refused to convert to Islam after Islamic conquests of the region and was a pejorative, although some writers have reappropriated it. [2]
Before there was a regional expansion, the Mandarese along with the Bugis people, Makassar people and Toraja people formed a cultural diversity in South Sulawesi. Although politically West Sulawesi and South Sulawesi are divided by a border, the Mandarese are historically and culturally close knitted to their cognate relatives in South Sulawesi.