List of Mandé peoples of Africa
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)
- Bambara people (Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Niger)
- Bozo people (Mali)
- Dyula people (Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea)
- Mandinka people (Mali, Guinea, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, The Gambia)
- Mandingo people (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia)
- Susu people (Guinea, Sierra Leone)
- Yalunka people (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali)
- Bafour people (Senegal, Mali) (Extinct: ancestors of present day Soninke and other Mandé groups)
- Banka people (Mali)
- Beng people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Bissa people (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo)
- Bobo people (Burkina Faso, Mali)
- Boko people (Benin, Nigeria)
- Busa people (Nigeria)
- Duun people (Mali, Burkina Faso)
- Gban people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Gbandi people (Liberia, Guinea)
- Gio people (Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia)
- Goo people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Guro people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Jakhanke people (Guinea, Senegal, The Gambia, Mali)
- Jeri people (Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso)
- Jowulu people (Mali)
- Kakabe people (Guinea)
- Kissi people (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone)
- Kono people (Sierra Leone)
- Kpee people (Burkina Faso)
- Kpelle people (Sierra Leone, Liberia)
- Kuranko people (Sierra Leone, Guinea)
- Kyenga people (Nigeria, Benin)
- Lele people (Guinea)
- Ligbi people (Ghana)
- Loko people (Sierra Leone)
- Loma people (Guinea, Liberia)
- Mano people (Liberia)
- Mende people (Sierra Leone, Liberia)
- Mikhifore people (Guinea)
- Mwan people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Samo people (Burkina Faso)
- Seenku people (Burkina Faso)
- Shangawa people(Nigeria)
- Soninke people (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana)
- Soninke Wangara (Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana) (Extinct: sub-group of the Soninke)
- Tura people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Vai people (Liberia, Sierra Leone)
- Wan people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Yaure people (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Zialo people (Guinea)
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