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Lets Talk African History:"Sahel" West African Civilizations
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one of my Haitian ancestors apparently had Mandingo ancestry
i might be your cousin nikka
i'm doing some googling and coli searching on Mande people in West Africa and
I'm 99% sure i have Akan (very sure), Nigerian (pretty sure), and Central African (possibly) in there too#GOATset
bump. found out i might have some Mandingo ancestry
Most African Americans should come back pretty strongly to the Mande people, because the Mande people (Mandinka, Mende, Loko, Vai, Susu, Kpelle, Dogon, Bambaran, Soninke, etc.) were targeted in the slave trade. The modern day countries that the Mande people (Mandingos/Malinke/Mandinka) are found in are:
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Senegal
Guinea-Conakry
Guinea-Bissau
Mali
Burkina Faso
Mauirtania
The Mossi people in northern Ghana, Mali and Togo are also partially Mande. The Mossi history starts with the marriage of a Mamprussi princess to a Mande prince.
Fwiw, the town of Naima, which is in modern day Guinea-Conakry; near modern Ivory Coast border is the birth place of Sundiata Keita. Naima was also the capital of the Kingdom of Mali before it was eventually moved.
Conakry is next to sierre leone not the ivory coast
Conakry is next to sierre leone not the ivory coast
I'm 99% sure i have Akan (very sure), Nigerian (pretty sure), and Central African (possibly) in there too
The Akan people (Ashanti, Brong/Abron, Baoule, Fante, Denkyira, etc) are probably distantly related to the Mande people. The Akan people are from the Kingdom of Ghana. For some reason the Akan people left the Kingdom of Ghana and moved into the forest belt in the modern day countries of Ivory Coast and Ghana. The Akan and Mande people, specifically the Mandingos, through their traders called (Dioula or Julla), continued to trade with the Akan people for centuries after the Akan left the Kingdom of Ghana. The Akan people in turn named their country Ghana after the Kingdom of Ghana, which was much further north and west of the modern country of Ghana. So even if you are Akan you are likely still distantly Mande.
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I wrote that Naima, which a town in Guinea-Conakry, is near the Ivory Coast. The town is actually Niani (I confused it with a lady I know named Naima). So it is the town of Niani that is near Ivory Coast.
You may have been confused with what I wrote, because I always write Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from Guinea-Bissau. Both regions were under the Kingdom of Mali, but they are separate now.