Bambaras

See also: Bambara

The Bambaras or Round of applause-Mâna are the members of a Ethnie of West Africa, mainly established with the Mali but also in Guinea, with the Burkina Faso and the Senegal.

In Mali, where they constitute the most important ethnicity, they are mainly present in the west of the country, between Ségou and Niono, in the Bélédougou in the north of Bamako, in the kaarta between Kita, Nioro and Koulikoro like in the area of Sikasso.

History

Originating in the Ouassoulou, between Sikasso and the Coast-D' Ivory, they would have left this area to escape the domination from the Malinkés.

At the 19th century, the kingdoms will bambaras Kaarta and of Ségou resist the empire peul of the Macina, then temporarily with the Toucouleur El Hadj Oumar Tall, which wishes to convert the animists with Islam. Their name means “ those which refused to subject ” ( round of applause = “refusal” and mana = “main”) even if they are mainly Moslem today. Formerly will bambaras them were polytheists and adored statuettes or totems.

Language

The Bambara became the principal language in Mali. It belongs to the branch mandée of the nigéro-Congolese Langues.

Cultural context

The traditional religion

In the thought will bambara, crowned is omnipresent. In all the aspects of the daily life, there is not or little place for a profane life with the direction where hear we it. In fact, for will bambara, there is no separation between not crowned on a side and the layman of the other. All is dependant, any bring into play the forces of the life which are the multiple aspects of the creative god .

The traditional religious design will bambara is difficult to define. In the religions mandingues, one finds elements of animism, fetishism by the cultural practices but also of totemism and manism (worship of the ancestors).

The oral tradition in medium will bambara

Civilization will bambara is a company without writing what does not prevent it from having a past and knowledge. This knowledge is transmitted by the oral tradition the whole of knowledge which can only be oral, the company will bambara dedicates a worship with orality: “As of the moment when a being is endowed with the verb, whatever its degree of evolution, it counts in the class of the large privileged people, because the verb is the most marvellous gift that God made with his creature. The verb is a divine attribute, as eternal as God himself. It is by the power of the verb that all was created. By giving to the man the verb, God delegated a share of his creative power to him. It is by the power of the verb that the man, also, creates to him. ”

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