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Mauritania, [a] formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, [b] is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast , Mali to the east and southeast , and Senegal to the southwest .
Pages in category "Culture of Mauritania" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kiffa beads;
Subsequently, toward the end of the Mauritanian Tichitt culture, Mandé-speaking peoples began to spread and established Méma, Macina, Dia Shoma, and Jenne Jeno in the Middle Niger region as well as the Ghana Empire. Today, Mandé-speaking peoples are predominantly Muslim and follow a caste system.
The Soninke (Sarakolleh) people are a West African Mande-speaking ethnic group found in Mali, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea (especially Fouta Djallon). [4] They speak the Soninke language , also called the Serakhulle or Azer language, which is one of the Mande languages . [ 5 ]
Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and ...
Berbers occupied what is now Mauritania by the beginning of the third century AD. Groups of Arab tribes migrated to this area in the late seventh century, bringing with them Islam, Arab culture, and the Arabic language. In the early 20th century, Mauritania was colonized by France as part of French West Africa. It achieved independence in 1960 ...
Berbers moved south to Mauritania beginning in the 3rd century, followed by Arabs in the late 7th century, subjugating and assimilating Mauritania's original inhabitants. From the 8th through the 15th century, black kingdoms of the western Sudan, such as Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, brought their political culture from the south. [6]
They have traditionally been characterized as the descendants of former sub-Saharan African slaves. [5] [6] They form the single largest defined ethnolinguistic group in Mauritania where they account for 40% of the population (~1.5 million). [7] In parts of Arab-Berber Maghreb, they are sometimes referred to as a "socially distinct class of ...