Mandinka Explained

Mandinka, Mandika, Mandinkha, Mandinko, or Mandingo may refer to:

Media

Mandingo (novel), a bestselling novel published in 1957
Mandingo (film), a 1975 film based on the eponymous 1957 novel
Mandingo (play), a play by Jack Kirkland
"Mandinka" (song), by Sinead O'Connor from her 1987 album The Lion and the Cobra

People

Mandingo people of Sierra Leone
Mandingo Wars (1883–1898), between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo
Mandinka language, a Manding language of West Africa, belonging to the Mande subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family
Mandinka people of West Africa
Wassoulou Empire, also known as the Mandinka Empire
Madinkhaya, an eastern variant of the Syriac alphabet
Mandingo, a stereotype of African American men

Other use

Mandingo fight, gladiator-like combat to the death by black slaves

See also