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The Soninke are a Mande-speaking ethnic group in eastern Senegal, including Dakar, northwestern Mali, and Fouta Djallon in Guinea, The Gambia, and southern Mauritania. They speak the Soninke language, which is also known as Maraka and is one of the Mande languages. The Soninke people were the builders of Ghana's ancient empire. Ghana was a West African kingdom that ruled over what is now Mauritania's southeast and western Mali.
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B. It grew smaller as power was given back to the states
