Lamine Diabang Manuscript Collection
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Item Kombo Niŋ Kaabu Tariikoo: Kombo and Kaabu HistoryDiabang, NouhaThe manuscript provides the origin of the different Mandinka family names and the migrations of the Mandinka people of Kaabu in Guinea-Bissau to southwestern Gambia, which resulted in the Kombo Mandinka communities. The document also deals with interactions that the Mandinka from Kaabu had with other communities during their migrations that resulted in their adoptions of new family names. The manuscript was copied from the original, which is kept in Kaabu-Kansala in Guinea Bissau, the capital of the former Mandinka Kingdom of Kaabu (1537-1867).Item Images of Lamine Diabang and the community of Dianna-Fogny (Ziguinchor)(2018-04-26) Ngom, IbrahimaImages of manuscript owner Lamine Diabang and the community of Dianna-Fogny, Ziguinchor, Senegal, for the manuscript digitization work done in April 2018.