Samo people

The Samo (also Sanan) is a sub-ethnic group of the Mandinka people from West Africa. They mainly live in northwest Burkina Faso and across the border in southern Mali.

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van een Samo vrouw TMnr

See also

References
  • Aboubacar Barry, Alliances peules en pays samo, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004, p. 124 (in French)
  • Françoise Héritier, L'Exercice de la parenté, Gallimard, Seuil, Paris, 1981, p. 199 (in French)
  • André Nyamba, L'identité et le changement social des Sanan du Burkina Faso, Université Bordeaux 2, 1992, 2 vol., p. 758 (in French)
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