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Women are expected to handle the household chores and tend to garden plots. In polygamous households, women share and split up their tasks. [10] It is common for Malian parents to take their daughters out of school for early marriage and fear of pregnancy. There is a prevailing notion that women in Mali will engage in adultery. [11]
A crowd of women in Mali. The culture of Mali derives from the shared experience, as a colonial and post-colonial polity, and the interaction of the numerous cultures which make up the Malian people. What is today the nation of Mali was united first in the medieval period as the Mali Empire.
The traditional costume gallery covers costumes of women from the Mali tribes. [4] An ensemble of fifteen mannequins in the hall showcase fourteen traditional costumes of women from the Regions of Mali with the fifteenth showcasing the outfit of a modern Mali woman. [7] The mannequins were made by a North Korean company operating out of Bamako. [7]
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Kassi (fl. 1352) (also called Qasa) [1] was an empress of the Kingdom of Mali [1] and one of the wives of Mansa Suleyman (r. 1341–1360). She was called Qasa, which means 'the Queen'. [2] Principal wife and paternal cousin of Suleyman, Kassi ruled jointly with her husband, as was traditional. [3]
Sogolon Wulen Condé [1] [2] (Gambian English: Sogolon Konte/Konteh) of Dò ni Kiri, [2] commonly known as Sogolon Condé (in Malian French), was a 13th-century princess of Imperial Mali, [3] and one of the prominent women portrayed in the Epic of Sundiata. Her trials and tribulations are well preserved in the epic. [4]
The Mali Empire started in 1230 and was the largest empire in West Africa and profoundly influenced the culture of West Africa through the spread of its language, laws and customs. [15] Until the 19th century, Timbuktu remained important as an outpost at the southwestern fringe of the Muslim world and a hub of the trans-Saharan slave trade .