Malinké Totally Explained

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The Malinké or Maninka are a part of Mandé in Africa.
Approximately 7,750,000 Malinké are scattered throughout West Africa, including:

Guinea - 2.8 million
Mali - 1.1 million
Ivory Coast - 1.0 million
Senegal - 1.0 million
Gambia - 600,000
Sierra Leone - 400,000
Burkina Faso - 400,000
Guinea-Bissau - 200,000
Liberia - 100,000
Ghana - 100,000

They don't form a majority group in any of the above countries. In Gambia they represent approx. 39% of the country's total population, in Guinea 32% and in Guinea-Bissau 14%.
They speak Malinké or Maninkakan, one of the Manding languages. The Malinké are generally Muslim, having abandoned earlier pantheist beliefs.
Traditionally they're subsistence farmers, growing small cash crops of peanuts and millet in the Sahel Africa region.
The "Malinke Empire" is an ethnic entity governed from its capital of Kangaba since the 8th century.

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