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Three Soninke Tales

African Arts, 1978
The narratives all allude to the early years of the Soninke and Mandingo peoples, whose histories and traditions are intertwined. According to Sako, the stories are from the repertoires of dieli, or griots, a hereditary class of bards who have preserved the memory of ancient Ghana and Mali.
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Antipassive derivation in Soninke (West Mande)

2021
Abstract Soninke, a West Mande language spoken in Mali, Mauritania, Gambia, and Senegal, provides crucial support to the view that accusative languages may have fully productive antipassive derivations. In Soninke, the distinction
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Atypical objects in Soninke (West Mande)

Italian Journal of Linguistics, 2017
Atypical objects are defined as phrases that do not represent participants in the event denoted by the verb and nevertheless are encoded like typical patients. Soninke (West-Mande) has cross-linguistically uncommon types of atypical objects expressing duration, interval/distance, or quantitative specification.
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L'organisation sociale du travail agricole des Soninke (Dyahunu, Mali)

Cahiers d'études africaines, 1968
Pollet Eric, Winter Grace. L'organisation sociale du travail agricole des Soninke (Dyahunu, Mali). In: Cahiers d'etudes africaines, vol. 8, n°32, 1968. pp. 509-534.
Pollet, Eric, Winter, Grace
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Studies on the Soninke Societal Organization and its Flaws

2023
This article investigates the contemporary Soninke societal organization and its flaws. The Soninke are conservative and hate social disorder. The Soninke families called xabiilo (clans) are stratified hieratically, but profoundly characterized by some social inequalities.
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THE RANK EFFECT: POST-EMANCIPATION IMMOBILITY IN A SONINKE VILLAGE

The Journal of African History, 2012
ABSTRACTThe end of internal slavery in West Africa is generally associated with an increase in labour mobility. This article complicates this picture by showing that the effects of status – the rank effect – on people's ability to migrate often outlasted emancipation.
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