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Pre-Mali Mande Confederation
Around 1200, Mandinka peoples of West Africa formed a preliminary political alliance in the Kankanba-upper Niger region, laying the ethnic and milita…
Timeline
- 1200Kankanba · West AfricaMandinka clans strengthened ties in the Kankanba region, sharing trade interests and coordinating responses to Soso pressure, forming the embryo of a loose alliance.
- 1200Upper Niger · MandeUnder a common threat, Mande peoples coordinated military resources and chieftain succession order, providing political and social preconditions for Sundiata's wars of unification in the mid-13th century.
Sources
- Mali | historical empire, Africa https://www.britannica.com/place/Mali-historical-empire-Africa
- Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali — Djibril Tamsir Niane (1965)