Mandinke
Mandinke is a term that has been used in various contexts to refer to a region or a group of people. It is primarily associated with West Africa, where it was used by European colonizers to identify a stretch of land along the Mandinka Empire, a powerful West African empire that existed from the 13th to the 19th centuries.
In geography, Mandinke refers specifically to a region in the interior of French West Africa, spanning across
The term Mandinke is also often used to identify the Mandinka people, an ethnic group that originated
In European colonial contexts, the term Mandinke was often used interchangeably with "Gambia" or "Sierra Leone",
The term Mandinke is also of interest in historical and anthropological studies, particularly with regard to