The Bambara language is the language of people of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 4, 000, 000 people, but serves also as a lingua franca in Mali ( it is estimated that about 80 percent of the population speak it as a first or second language ).

These regions are also usually considered to be the historical geographical origin of Bambara people, particularly Segou, Sikasso, after diverging from other Manding groups.

The Bambara Empire existed as a centralized state from 1712 to 1861, was based at Ségou ( also seen as Segu ), and ruled parts of central and southern Mali.

It later allied with Bambara Empire against Umar Tall's Toucouleur Empire and was also defeated by it in 1862.

The Bambara () are a Mandé people living in west Africa, primarily in Mali but also in Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal.

In addition to its general use as a reference to an ethno-linguistic group, Bambara was also used to identify captive Africans who originated in the interior of Africa perhaps from the upper Senegal-Niger region and transported to the Americas via ports on the Senegambian coast.

Bambara groundnuts are also known as jugo beans or in Swahili, njugumawe.

The xalam is commonly played in Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Northern Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Western Sahara ; it is also known in other languages as bappe, diassare, hoddu ( Pulaar ), koliko ( Gurunsi ), kologo ( Frafra ), komsa, kontigi ( Hausa ), koni, konting ( Mandinka ), molo ( Songhay / Zarma ), ndere, ngoni ( Bambara ), and tidinit ( Hassaniyya Arabic ).

The Somono, also fisherman, are not a distinct ethnic group but a mixture of Bambara, Bozo and Soninke.

The project is mainly working with radio stations, but is also involved in the development of local language resources, including an edition of Wikipedia in Bambara.

The Somono, also fisherman, are not a distinct ethnic group but a mixture of Bambara, Bozo and Soninke.

To the east and west, they are also bordered mainly by Mande languages like Bambara and Dioula, and they have been influenced considerably by those languages in both vocabulary and grammar ( Carlson 1994 ).

The Bamana Empire ( also Bambara Empire or Ségou Empire ) was a large pre-colonial West African state based at Ségou, now in Mali.

The late Serer-diva Yandé Codou Sène was a practitioner of the Tassou ( var: Tasú ), a " form of sung and chanted poetry central to both everyday and ritual Serer life that is also used explicitly by the Wolof, Fula, Mandinka, Bambara and other regional ethnic groups.

There are also large populations of Bambara peoples native to Wassoulou.

A Chiwara ( also Chi wara, Ci Wara, or Tyi Wara ) is a ritual object representing an antelope, used by the Bambara ethnic group in Mali.

The chi wara ton is also the only major Bambara society which includes both sexes.

Bitòn Coulibaly ( also Mamary Coulibaly, 1689 ?– 1755 ) founded the Bambara Empire in what is now Mali's Ségou Region and Mopti Region.

Mansong Diarra ( also Monzon ) was ruler of the Bambara Empire from 1795 to 1808.

Traoré also goes by the nickname Kar Kar, " the one who dribbles too much " in Bambara, a reference to his soccer playing: " a nickname I got from playing soccer when I was young.

Mandé culture is known for its strong fraternal orders and sororities ( Ton ) and the history of the Bambara Empire strengthened and preserved these orders.

In the Northern part of Yoruba, it is commonly known as " Epa-kuta ", and in the Gha Language, spoken by the people in Greater Accra, Ghana, the Bambara Bean is called " Akwei ".

Major ethnic groups include the Senoufo, known for masks and reverence for animals, the Samago, known for being Mali's best farmers, and the main ethnic group in Mali, the Bambara people.

Fanta Damba ( born in 1938 in Ségou ) is a Malian jalimuso ( Bambara female Griot-singer ) known to her fans as La Grand Vedette Malienne.

It lies on the eastern slope of Mount Kita ( Bambara: " Kita-kulu "), known for its caves and rock paintings.

Growing from farming communities in Ouassoulou, between Sikasso and Côte d ' Ivoire, Bamana age co-fraternities ( called Tons ) began to develop a state structure which became the Bambara Empire.

The original local name for Bambara nut is cokon ( Bamanankan ).

The population of Kati speaks primarily Bambara locally called Bamanankan.

Bamanankan ( Bambara )

This oral literature is mainly tradited by the " Griots " ( Jɛliw in Bambara ) who are a mixture of storytellers, praise singers and human history books who have studied the trade of singing and reciting for many years.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.

* Niani, capital of the Mali Empire, is sacked by the Bambara of the emerging Segou Empire.

The Gyil's design is similar to the Balaba or Balafon used by the Mande-speaking Bambara, Dyula and Sosso peoples further west in southern Mali and western Burkina Faso, a region that shares many musical traditions with those of northern Côte d ' Ivoire and Ghana.

" Blues Ain't No Mocking Bird " is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara written in 1971.

A second strategy is the correlative-clause strategy used by Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages, as well as Bambara.

The Mande languages are spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé people and include Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Dioula, Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai.

While dialects of the western group usually have 10 vowels ( 5 oral and 5 long / nasal ), the eastern group, typified by Bambara, has 14 vowels ( 7 oral and 7 nasal ):

It is sung in Bambara, an African language and English and, according to their Facebook page, the single is inspired by a Malian immigrant they met.

* 1861: Overthrow of the Bambara Empire by the Toucouleur Empire.

Founded in the 16th or seventeenth century by a slave named Diawandé, Nioro attained its greatest height in the eighteenth century when it served as the capital of the Bambara kingdom of Kaarta.

Segou Koro was created by the founder of the Bambara dynasty.

During the 17th century, Bambara coming from Djenné, led by Kaladjan Koulibaly settled down along the Niger River.

by Miehe, Gudrun ; Reineke, Brigitte ; Roncador, Manfred von ) ( 1999 ) Phénomènes de contact entre les langues Minyanka et Bambara ( Sud du Mali ).

* Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations by Toni Cade Bambara and Toni Morrison ( 1996 )

At the Battle of Noukouma in 1818, Bambara forces met and were defeated by Fula Muslim fighters rallied by the jihad of Cheikou Amadu ( or Seku Amadu ) of Massina.

* Bambara language: a Mande language, spoken by 6 million people in Mali.

They are often referred to as cooters, which stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves.