#soninke

[folkfashion]

Soninke woman, Mauritania, by penndaaba

[heifercatmoon]

[basketdevil]

Made this to help me with reading Alifa. Obsessed with color combo here.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Soninke woman from Mali

French vintage postcard, photographed by Fortier, mailed in 1916

[sahljournal]

A marabout surrounded by the faithful in a village of the Soninke people between Mauritania and Mali. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

[twistedsoulmusic]

This compilation album offers an immersive journey through the innovative productions of Gaye Mody Camara across almost 30 years. Blending traditional West African instrumentation and vocals with various styles creates a hypnotic soundscape that pays homage to the past while pushing genre boundaries.

[greenstarforce]

Bringing this old meme back

Thinking about them...

[imadititom]

Soninké traditional dance.

The goal is to land on the same spot.

[languagexs]

Exploring the Rich History of the Soninke People in Mali

Unveiling the Fascinating Soninke People of West Africa The Soninke people are an ethnic group with a rich cultural heritage deeply intertwined with the history of West Africa. This article delves into the fascinating world of the Soninke, exploring their origins, traditions, and the significant impact they had on the development of empires in the region. Whether you’re a history buff, an…

[panafrocore]

Chinguetti: A Medieval Trading Center on the Edge of the Desert

Chinguetti, a captivating medieval trading center nestled on the Adrar Plateau in northern Mauritania, holds a rich history that dates back to the 13th century. This remarkable city, also known as a ksar, served as the hub for a network of trans-Saharan trade routes, playing a pivotal role in facilitating trade and cultural exchange in the region. Even today, Chinguetti continues to draw a modest…

[dreamsbeyondsleep]

Oh huh so that movie The Woman King is actually about the Kingdom of Dahomey and the Agojie which was an all female regiment used by the kingdom because constant warfare to gather slaves (especially once Europeans began trading firearms for slaves and warfare became deadlier as a result) had resulted in an imbalanced ratio of fighting men and so a third of the army was all female. Except the movie depicts the Agojie as defeating an attack by European slave traders m, when actually the Agojie were part of the raids to enslave people to then sell to the Europeans. So like the opposite.

And apparently Lupita Nyong'o was originally gonna be in the movie but before production she traveled to Benin for a documentary about the Ahojie and the Kingdom of Dahomey and how the kingdom became wealthy because of slavery and the Ahojie were themselves slave soldiers in that they were conscripted while young and beaten and abused until they became killing machines and then Lupita Nyong’o quietly left The Woman King project

[heifercatmoon]

Soninke

[basketdevil]

Summore of Alifa! I write it like this to mimic Times New Roman & That underrated Wikipedia header font. Really love this look. It gives it a dravidian flare I CANNOT get over.

[friendswithclay]

“A Soninke woman uses her fingers to paint patterns on the wall of her house in Diajibinni, Mauritania.”

From: “Mauritania” by Blauer, Ettagale; 2009.

[ptseti]

We talk about the Kingdom of Ghana, also called the Wagadou Empire, the first known empire in Western Sudan, founded by the Soninke people. It was ruled through a matrilineal system.

[kemetic-dreams]

Blues has evolved from the unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves imported from West Africa and rural Africans into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, with regional variations across the United States. Although blues (as it is now known) can be seen as a musical style based on both European harmonic structure and the African call-and-response tradition that transformed into an interplay of voice and guitar, the blues form itself bears no resemblance to the melodic styles of the West African griots. Additionally, there are theories that the four-beats-per-measure structure of the blues might have its origins in the Native American tradition of pow wow drumming. Some scholars identify strong influences on the blues from the melodic structures of certain West African musical styles of the savanna and sahel. Lucy Durran finds similarities with the melodies of the Bambara people, and to a lesser degree, the Soninke people and Wolof people, but not as much of the Mandinka people. Gerard Kubik finds similarities to the melodic styles of both the west African savanna and central Africa, both of which were sources of enslaved people.

No specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues. However the call-and-response format can be traced back to the music of Africa. That blue notes predate their use in blues and have an African origin is attested to by "A Negro Love Song", by the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from his African Suite for Piano, written in 1898, which contains blue third and seventh notes.

The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South sometimes referred to as a jitterbug or a one-string in the early twentieth century) and the banjo are African-derived instruments that may have helped in the transfer of African performance techniques into the early blues instrumental vocabulary. The banjo seems to be directly imported from West African music. It is similar to the musical instrument that griots and other Africans such as the Igbo played (called halam or akonting by African peoples such as the Wolof, Fula and Mandinka). However, in the 1920s, when country blues began to be recorded, the use of the banjo in blues music was quite marginal and limited to individuals such as Papa Charlie Jackson and later Gus Cannon.

Blues music also adopted elements from the "Ethiopian airs", minstrel shows and Negro spirituals, including instrumental and harmonic accompaniment. The style also was closely related to ragtime, which developed at about the same time, though the blues better preserved "the original melodic patterns of African music"