The Marakkars or Sonaka Mappila or Sonakar (Tamil: சோனகர், romanized: Cōṉakar; Arwi: چٗونَكَرْ) are a panethnic Muslim mercantile community native to the Coromandel and Malabar coasts of southern India and to Sri Lanka, with historic diaspora...
Marka people (also Marka Dafing, Meka, or Maraka), people are a Mande people of northwest Mali. They speak the Marka, a Manding language.
The Soninke (Sarakolleh) people are a West African Mande-speaking ethnic group found in Mali, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea (especially Fouta Djallon). They speak the Soninke language, also called the Serakhulle or...
The Bambara (Bambara: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲, romanized: Bamana or ߓߊ߲ߡߊߣߊ߲ Banmana) are a Mandé ethnic group native to West Africa, primarily southern Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal. They have been associated with the historic Bambara Empire....
The Shrine of Baba Gurbaksh Das (Punjabi: بابا گربکش داس دی سمادھی Bābā Gurbaksh Dās di Samādhi), popularly known in Punjabi as Isaaiaan da mazaar (عیسائیاں دا مزار; meaning "The Shrine of the Christians") is a Christian shrine in Maraka in the...
Yala Kunni is a 2024 Kannada-language action comedy film directed by N. R. Pradeep Kumar and produced by Anusuya Komal Kumar and Sahana Murthy under Soundarya Lahari Combines and Narasimha Cinemas. It stars Komal Kumar and Nisarga Appanna in lead...
The music of Mali is, like that of most West African nations, ethnically diverse, but one influence predominates: that of the ancient Mali Empire of the Mandinka (from c. 1230 to c. 1600).
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa and the 23rd largest country in the world, with an area of 1,240,192 square kilometres (478,841 sq mi). It is bordered to the...
The Panjika (IAST: Pañjikā; Assamese: পঞ্জিকা; Bengali: পঞ্জিকা; Maithili: পাঁজিক, पाँजिक; Nepali: पञ्जिका; Odia: ପଞ୍ଜିକା) is the Hindu astronomical almanac, published in Assamese, Bengali, Maithili, Nepali and Odia languages and colloquially known...
