The Bambara are a Mandé ethnic group native to West Africa, primarily southern Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal. They have been associated with the historic Bambara Empire. Today, t
Bambara people in upper Sénégal river valley, 1890. (illustration from Colonel Frey's Côte occidentale d'Afrique, 1890, Fig.49 p.87)
Bambara human figure, late 19th to early 20th century, Mali. Wood. African Art Museum, Smithsonian.
Bambara, also known as Malian, Bamana or Bamanankan, is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 14 million people, natively by 4.2 million Bambara people and about 10 million s
Page from Francis Delaforge's Grammaire et méthode Bambara (1949)