Mande

Mandinga, Mandinka, Marinke, etc. are Mande tribes living in West Africa, with nearly 3 million people in Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, etc. I live in various countries in West Africa.

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"Mandinka" spoken in Gambia and Senegal, "Marinke" in Guinea and Mali, and "Soninke" spoken in countries in southern West Africa are Mandinka dialects and are linguistically classified as Niger-Congo. Belongs to a language family.

Also, the names of their languages end with "ke" or "ka" (meaning "word" or "person"), as in other West African languages.

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The Mandés have a very close cultural and ethnic relationship with the Fulani and other Western Atlantic languages and the Songhai and other Nilo-Saharan languages. Also, as various different tribes accepted and adapted Mandé's words, names and traditions, the Mandé were defined by culture and language, not by anthropological attributes.

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The Mandés have been worshiping Islam since the 13th century, and more than 95% of the Mandés are still Muslims.

The Mandé kingdom continues from around the 10th century to Central to West Africa.

Kingdom of Ghana (Soninke)

10th to mid 13th century

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Kingdom of Mali (Mandinka)  

Mid 13th century to late 16th century

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Songhai Empire (Songhai)  

Although not a Mandé, he had a close relationship with the Mandé as mentioned above.        

Songhai (Nile Saharan)