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But in the Mandinka language of West Africa, they are known as djelis.
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Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Help is harder to come by in French, Arabic, Wolof, Mandinka, or Fula—to say nothing of smaller languages and regional and ethnic dialects spoken by many African migrants.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
Among the highest rates of genetic sharing between research participants and Catoctin individuals were people who identified as West Africa's Wolof and Mandinka peoples or Central Africa's Kongo people.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
The new analysis also revealed that some of the individuals descended from the Wolof and Mandinka populations of West Africa and the Kongo people of Central Africa, per the Harvard statement.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
But the kora was little known in Senegal outside of the minority Mandinka ethnic group before the monks of Keur Moussa Abbey started using it.
—Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
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Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Help is harder to come by in French, Arabic, Wolof, Mandinka, or Fula—to say nothing of smaller languages and regional and ethnic dialects spoken by many African migrants.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
Among the highest rates of genetic sharing between research participants and Catoctin individuals were people who identified as West Africa's Wolof and Mandinka peoples or Central Africa's Kongo people.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
The new analysis also revealed that some of the individuals descended from the Wolof and Mandinka populations of West Africa and the Kongo people of Central Africa, per the Harvard statement.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
But the kora was little known in Senegal outside of the minority Mandinka ethnic group before the monks of Keur Moussa Abbey started using it.
—Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
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“Mandinka.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mandinka. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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