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The Mende people speak the Mende language (also called Boumpe, Hulo, Kossa, or Kosso), which belongs to the Mande language branch of the proposed Niger-Congo language family. [6] In the 1930s African-American linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner found a Gullah family in coastal Georgia that had preserved an ancient song in the Mende language ("A waka ...
Following the fall of the great Empires of the Northern Mandé-speaking people (Mandinka and Soninke ethnic groups), the presence of other Mandé-speaking people came about. These were the Mane , Southern Mandé speakers ( Mende , Gbandi , Kpelle , Loma ethnic groups) who invaded the western coast of Africa from the east during the first half ...
The Mende are a Muslim majority group, though with a large Christian minority. The Mende, who are believed to be descendants of the Mane, originally occupied the Liberian hinterland. They began moving into Sierra Leone slowly and peacefully in the eighteenth century. The vast majority of the Mende support the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). [1]
People of Mende descent (1 C) K. Kposowa family (4 P) M. Margai family (Sierra Leone) (4 P) Mende language (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Mende people"
This is a list of Mandé peoples of Africa.. The predominant countries of each group's residence are shown in bold and are italicised. Manding (whose languages are in the Manding languages group of Mande)
La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba.It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave traders and illegally transported by a Portuguese ship from West Africa to Cuba, in violation of European treaties against the Atlantic ...
Mende / ˈ m ɛ n d i / [2] (Mɛnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia and Guinea. It is spoken by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. [3] Mende is a tonal language belonging to the Mande language family.
Mende people (4 C, 35 P) Mandé mythology (4 P) S. Soninke people (10 P) Susu people (25 P) Pages in category "Mandé people" The following 20 pages are in this ...