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The 'Malinké' or Maninka are a Manding ethnic group (part of Mandé) in Africa.
Approximately 7,750,000 (source} 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 do not 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 are 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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See also

External links

★ mnsu.edu Malinke

★ A website devoted to Malinke djembe drumming

See also

★ Mali Empire

★ Mandinka people

★ Mandé

★ Mande languages

★ Manding languages

★ Mandinka language

★ Griot

★ Djembe

★ Kora (instrument)

★ Mane, Malian Soldiers