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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]
What is today the nation of Mali was united first in the medieval period as the Mali Empire. While the current state does not include areas in the southwest, and is expanded far to the east and northeast, the dominant roles of the Mandé people is shared by the modern Mali, and the empire from which its name originates from.
The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé [3] or Manden Duguba; [4] [5] Arabic: مالي, romanized: Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita ( c. 1214 – c. 1255 ) and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa (Musa Keita).
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]
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3. Though they were forbidden from signing up officially, a large number of Black women served as scouts, nurses and spies in the Civil War.. 4. One of the greatest African rulers of all time ...
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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