The Mandinka know if the Kankuran finds them in the midst of a festive get together, he might mistake them for a spirit, and then they'll get the beating. This explains the mixed message of the ...

The term "mumbo jumbo" dates back centuries and traces its roots to West Africa. It is widely believed to come from the Mandinka people who make up the largest ethnic group in what is now Ghana.

West Africa: Kora - in Search of the Origins of West Africa's Famed Stringed Musical Instrument. ... Mandinka. Just as the bala (Mande xylophone) has origins in Mali in the 1200s, ...

Betenty FM 91.6 is important to the villagers because it is the only radio using the local language, Mandinka. It's also reaching out to neighbouring islands and even the Gambia. Reaching out across ...

Bully Camara joined David for the latest edition of Found in Translation and shared a word from the Mandinka language which is spoken in The Gambia along with some other countries in West Africa.

Among the films shown this year: “African Glory”, the story of a Mandinka emperor who sailed to the Americas almost two centuries before Christopher Colombus. FRANCE 24's team reports.

Africa Renewal is highlighting the journeys African Americans are taking to reconnect with Africa - the continent their ancestors called home. ... he found Mandinka and European.

According to O’Connor, she lived in a theocracy in Ireland and faced severe oppression at her home, finding solidarity with the Mandinka people in West Africa. I don’t know no shame, I feel no ...

The music of West Africa will fill Franklin & Marshall College's Barshinger Center Friday when Mamadou Diabate performs on the kora, in the first Sound Horizons concert of the year.