Bambara

[ bahm-bahr-ah, -bahr-uh ]

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noun

a Mande language that is used as a trade language in the upper Niger drainage basin in Africa.
a member of an agricultural, Mande-speaking people of Mali.

Bambara

/ ��ɑː��ˈ��ɑː��ə /

noun

-ra-ras a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Mali and by the headwaters of the River Niger in Guinea
the language of this people, belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family

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Dozens of immigrants listened to proceedings on headsets with access to simultaneous translations in Wolof, Haitian Creole, Arabic, French, Fula and Bambara.

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In 2019, a video of Keïta, speaking in the Bambara language and addressing IBK directly, went viral.

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Djigui - whose name means "hope" in Mali's Bambara language - said he had been called "gorilla" and "monkey" by police officers during ID checks.

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The lyrics, in Bambara and English, are about gratitude to her family; the spirit is centered and fierce.

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Koité’s songs, with lyrics in Bambara, French and occasionally English, are built on rippling African polyrhythms, but such lilting tunes as “Baro” also feature vocal harmonies akin to California folk rock.

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