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The Battle of Kirina (c. 1240) is a semi-historical confrontation between the Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté and the Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita. Sundiata Keita's forces roundly defeated those of Soumaoro Kanté, guaranteeing the pre-eminence of Keita's new Mali Empire over West Africa. Events Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kyiv Births Pope Benedict XI Deaths April 11 - Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, also known as Llywelyn The Great Prince of Gwynedd Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Castile...
Sosso was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century Takrur kingdom. ...
Soumaoro Kanté (sometimes Sumanguru) was a thirteenth century king of the Sosso people of the Takrur region. ...
The Mandinka are a Mande people of West Africa, all descendent physically or culturally from the ancient Mali Empire which controlled the trans-Saharic trade from the Middle East to West Africa. ...
Sundiata Keita or Sunjata Keita (meaning the Lion King )(c. ...
The Mali Empire was an Islamic Empire of the Mandinka people in West Africa from the 14th to 17th centuries. ...
West Africa is the region of. ...
In the late twelfth century, the then-dominant Ghana Empire was collapsing from repeated invasions by the Almoravids. A number of smaller states rushed to fill the void, including the Sosso people of the Takrur region and the Mandinka people of the Upper Niger. Under the leadership of Soumaoro Kanté, the Sosso seized Koumbi Saleh, former capital of the Ghana Empire, and expanded outward, conquering the Mandinka among others. The Ghana Empire in Africa The Ghana Empire (existed c. ...
Almoravides (In Arabic المرابطون al-Murabitun, sing. ...
Takrur was one of the minor Iron Age states of West Africa, which flourished roughly parallel to the Kingdom of Ghana. ...
The Mandinka are a Mande people of West Africa, all descendent physically or culturally from the ancient Mali Empire which controlled the trans-Saharic trade from the Middle East to West Africa. ...
Koumbi Saleh was the capital of the Ghana Empire. ...
However, exiled Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita organized a coalition of smaller kingdoms to oppose the growing power of the Sosso. The opposing armies met in the Koulikoro Region of what is now Mali in about 1240. Sundiata Keita's forces were victorious, and marched on to raze Sosso. The date is often cited as the beginning of the Mali Empire, which would control most of West Africa for the next two centuries. Koulikoro is a region in Mali. ...
The story of the battle is retold in the Epic of Sundiata, widely considered Mali's national epic. In it, Soumaoro Kanté is an evil sorcerer-king who oppresses the Mandinka people; however, when Sundiata discovers that his sacred animal is the rooster, he is able to wound Soumaoro Kanté with an arrow tipped by a cock's spur. The king then flees the field, disappearing into the Koulikoro mountains. Sundiata Keita or Sunjata Keita (c. ...
The concept of a National epic, a mythological or partly mythological large work of epic poetry of defining importance to a certain nation (a political (or would-be) entity and/or an ethno-religuous identity), is a product of the 19th century phenomenon of Romantic nationalism. ...
This article concerns biological roosters. ...
References
- Davidson, Basil. Africa in History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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