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Describe the Soninke people and the Ghana empire?

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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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Answer 2

Soninke people were the founders of the ancient empire of Ghana c. 750–1240 CE. ... Predominantly Muslims, the Soninke were one of the early ethnic groups from sub-Saharan West Africa to convert to Islam in about the 10th century. The contemporary population of Soninke people is estimated to be over 2 million.




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