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Title: | The Mane, the Decline of Mali and Mandinka Expansion towards the South Windward Coast |
Author: | Massing, Andreas W. |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | Cahiers d'études africaines |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 97 |
Pages: | 21-55 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | history Mali polity Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1985.2184 |
Abstract: | This article gives a new interpretation of the Mane question in the wider context of the political and economic history of the Niger basin, and in particular of the decline of the Mali empire. The following points are argued: 1) the Mane invasion of the 16th century was only one of several invasions, 2) the Mane were of Mandinka rather than of Southern Mande stock, 3) the Mane conquest was not identical with the Kquoja invasion reported for the early 17th century, 4) events of the Mane invasion only took place in the vicinity of Sierra Leone and had no connection with Liberia until the 17th century, 5) the leading element of the Mandinka in the southern forest area were the Kamara Diomande, one of the oldest clans of Mali, and 6) the political and economic upheavals in Mali led to a Mandinka expansion southwards and to a greater reliance on the southern trade routes. App., bibliogr., notes, sum. in French p. 133. |