The term "mumbo jumbo" dates back centuries and traces its roots to West Africa. It is widely believed to come from the Mandinka people who make up the largest ethnic group in what is now Ghana.

But for the man behind the mask and the Mandinka people he stalks, the rewards are believed to be great. Aida Touré, a young woman in Kolda, says she was married for five years and was unable to ...

So, now, after discovering that I am 70 percent sub-Saharan African with cultural ties to Balanta and Fula peoples in Guinea-Bissau, the Mende people in Sierra Leone, and the Mandinka people in ...

Mandinka. Her first international hit, ... The 21-year-old’s interest in black history, and a reading of Alex Haley’s book, Roots, had her referencing the Mandinka people of West Africa, ...

When people vow to murder you (as they did after she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live) ... “Mandinka,” at its core, is a song of defiance.