Bambara

expand_more Description

The Bambara are a Mande-speaking people located mostly in Mali, West Africa. They live in nucleated village communities and most Bambara earn their living cultivating a variety of crops and raising domesticated animals. Many augment their income by participating in a variety of non-agricultural activities including trade, wage labor, and small-scale craft production.

Identifier

Region

• Africa

Subregion

• Western Africa

Subsistence Type

• agro-pastoralists

Samples

• EA
• SCCS

Countries

• Guinea
• Cote d'Ivoire
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Senegal
• Burkina Faso

External Links

• Bambara (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Bambara (Standard Cross-Cultural Sample) D-PLACE