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The Mandinka people of Sierra Leone (commonly referred to as the Mandingo, Mandinka or Malinke) is a major ethnic group in Sierra Leone and a branch of the Mandinka people of West Africa, with whom they share the same culture, religion, tradition and language. The Sierra Leonean Mandingo are the direct descendants of Mandinka warriors from Guinea who conquered large territories in areas of the North and East of Sierra Leonean in the 1870s under the leadership of Samori Ture. They were followed by thousands of 'Mandinka settlers from Guinea in the late 19th and early-to-mid-20th century. The Mandingo constitute about 7% of Sierra Leone's population. The Mandingo are 98% Muslim, and Islam has become the basis of their religious and cultural practices. The Mandingo people of Sierra Leone are predominantly traders and rural subsistence farmers. Sierra Leone's third president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, first Vice President Sorie Ibrahim Koroma and Alhaji Chief Mucktarru-Kallay, the first chairman and Leader of the APC are three of many of Sierra Leone's prominent Mandingo politicians. The Mandingo people of Sierra Leone speak the Mandinka language as their native language. The Mandingo are found in virtually all parts of Sierra Leone; they make up the majority of the population of several towns in the North and East of Sierra Leone. Their population is largely concentrated in Koinadugu District in the North, particularly in the towns of Kabala and Falaba, where they form the majority of the population. The Mandingo make up the majority of the population in Yengema, Kono District in Eastern Sierra Leone. They also make up the majority of the population in the town of Karina, Bombali District in the north of Sierra Leone. ==History== In 1875, Samori Ture, a Mandinka leader in Guinea, imported breech-loading rifles through the British colony Sierra Leone and supplied his warriors with them. By 1876, his Mandinka warriors had defeated the Limba led by Almamy Suluku and had conquered a large territory in Limba areas in northern Sierra Leone. The Mandinka warriors moved into the northeastern part of British colony Sierra Leone, where they occupied lands of the local Temne and Loko people. Ture forced the local Sierra Leonean people in the area to abandon their animist beliefs and to convert to Islam or face death. He took the title of ''Almany'', chief of all Believers. By late 1876, the Mandinka warriors had occupied a large section in northeastern Sierra Leone. Samori sent thousands of Mandinka people from the Wassoulou empire in central Guinea to Mandinka-occupied northeastern Sierra Leone as traders, farmers, and settlers to colonize the area. By late 1878, the Mandinka population had tripled in British-controlled Sierra Leone. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of the Mandinka had begun to have families, and the British government considered their descendants as citizens of Sierra Leone by birth. The British called them Mandingo. While they were concentrated in the North and East, the Mandinka traders and businesspeople also settled in the capital Freetown. Since the late eighteenth century, it had been dominated by the Krio people, descendants of black colonists from Great Britain and Nova Scotia. The latter included freed United States slaves who were settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War, when they had joined the British to gain freedom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mandingo people of Sierra Leone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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