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Mende women with a masked Sande society leader. All Mende women when they reach puberty begin the initiation process into the Sande society. The goals of this secret society are to teach young Mende women the responsibilities of adulthood. The girls are taught to be hardworking and modest in their behavior, especially towards their elders.
Mandé-influenced caste systems, and elements thereof, sometimes spread, due to Mande influences, to non-Mandé-speaking ethnic groups (in and near regions where Mande cultures settled) and were adopted by certain non-Mande peoples of Senegal, parts of Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, and elsewhere the Western Sudan and Western Sahel regions of ...
Dubinskas, Frank A. "Everywoman" and the "Super"-Woman: An Investigation of the Sowo, Spirit of the Mende Women's Secret Society, Sande: The Relation of Her Form as an Ideological Construction to its Bases in the Social and Economic Position of Women. Unpublished manuscript, 1976. Easmon, M. C. F. (1958) Madam Yoko: Ruler of the Mendi Confederacy.
The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, accounting for 33.2 percent of the country’s population. The tribe is generally found in the east and the south of the country.
The Mende are a Muslim majority group, though with a large Christian minority. The Mende, who are believed to be descendants of the Mane, originally occupied the Liberian hinterland. They began moving into Sierra Leone slowly and peacefully in the eighteenth century. The vast majority of the Mende support the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). [1]
This is a list of Mandé peoples of Africa.. The predominant countries of each group's residence are shown in bold and are italicised. Manding (whose languages are in the Manding languages group of Mande)
By placing security and stability into the realm of women, badenya emphasizes their important role in society. It is important to note that in the Mande world, both badenya and fadenya are integral to the survival of a community. While “Mande peoples focus much socialization activity on the fostering of fadenya behavior, recognizing that it ...
Mande languages (7 C, 54 P) Mandinka (4 C, 17 P) ... Mende people (4 C, 35 P) Mandé mythology (4 P) S. Soninke people (10 P) Susu people (25 P) Pages in category ...