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Bemba (also known as Ngala or Pemba) is the creator god in the traditional religion of the Bambara people of Mali. [1] [2] The name is used to refer to Bemba, who is portrayed as a god consisting of four distinct beings (Pemba, Nyale, Faro, and Ndomadyiri) and is sometimes used to refer to one of its members, Pemba. Although Bemba is often ...
This is a list of African spirits as well as deities found within the traditional African religions.It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African religions—which is mostly derived from traditional African religions.
The enfant terrible is a character appearing in the tales and myths of many cultures of West and Central Africa, mainly among the traditions of the Bambara and Madinka. Recognizable by the unusual circumstances surrounding their birth and an extraordinary precocity the enfant terrible are guilty of transgressive behavior, often destructive or ...
A Bambara warrior. A Bambara village. Traditionally, Mandé society is hierarchal or caste-based, with nobility and vassals. Bamana political order created a small free nobility, set in the midst of endogamous caste and ethnic variation. Both castes and ethnic groups performed vocational roles in the Bamana state, and this differentiation ...
A Chiwara (also Chi wara, Ci Wara, or Tyi Wara; Bambara: ciwara; French: tchiwara) is a ritual object representing an antelope, used by the Bambara ethnic group in Mali. The Chiwara initiation society uses Chiwara masks, as well as dances and rituals associated primarily with agriculture, to teach young Bamana men social values as well as ...
The traditional beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions. [4] [5] Generally, these traditions are oral rather than scriptural and passed down from one generation to another through folk tales, songs, and festivals, [6] [7] include belief in an amount of higher and lower gods, sometimes including a supreme creator or force, belief ...
The Serers relates the creation myth and the role of speech in the formation of the Universe.Two Serer terms expresses the mythical creation word: "A nax" and "A leep".The former is a short narrative for a short myth or proverbial expression and is equivalent to a verb.
Around 1640, Kaladian Coulibaly, also known as Fa Sine, became the leader of a small Bambara kingdom in the city of Ségou in Mali.Though he made many successful conquests of neighboring tribes and kingdoms, he failed to set up a significant administrative framework, and the new empire disintegrated following his death (c. 1660).