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Current Feed ContentThe Empire of Manding (Mali)The creators of the great Empire of Manding, called Mali in the European texts, were the Mandinka. The heartland of Manding was the plateau between the upper Niger and the Senegal rivers, in the area now within the borders the modern republic of Mali. The Mandinka seeking peoples of the modern states of The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Liberia all trace their cultural origin to the Manding Empire, from where their ancestor migrated long ago. During... |