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Malinke
or Ѳ··첹
[ muh-ling-key, -kee ]
noun
plural Malinkes, (especially collectively) Malinke
- a member of an agricultural people living in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast.
- the Mande language of the Malinke people.
Malinke
/ əˈɪŋɪ /
noun
- -ke-kes a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in Guinea and Mali, noted for their use of cowry shells as currency
- the language of this people, belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family
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That book was 1976's Heremakhonon, which means "waiting for happiness" in the the west African Malinke language.
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Mr. Condé, in a 2018 interview, lavished praise on the young officer — a fellow member of the Malinke tribe.
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Local media reports say he is an ethnic Malinke, like Conde, and comes from the eastern Kankan Region.
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Ethnic riots between Malinke and Peul broke out in 2012.
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The lead-up to the election last October was then marred by sporadic violence between members of Conde’s Malinke ethnic group and his main rival Cellou Dalein Diallo’s Peul.
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