The Susu people are a Mande-speaking ethnic group living primarily in Guinea and Northwestern Sierra Leone, particularly in Kambia District. Influential in Guinea, smaller communities of Susu people are also found in the neighboring Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.
Susu men with traditional musical instruments in 1935
A Susu yeliba playing a three-string bolon in 1905.
The Mandé people are an ethnic and linguistic group who are native to West Africa, possessing a long shared history and forming a distinct linguistic family known as the Mandé Languages. The Mandé languages are divided into two primary groups: East Mandé and West Mandé.
Tichitt Tradition rock art depicting cart, with long platform, framed by two wheels
13th–15th century female terracotta figure covered with red ochre
Sankore Mosque
A 13th-century mosque in northern Ghana attributed to the Wangara.