Futa Jallon is peopled principally by Fula, and the rest of the country by Malinke and other tribes of Mandingo.
2
Ghana was finally conquered by the Mandingo kings of Melle in the 13th century.
3
Such are the Mandingo, the Songhai, the Fula, Hausa, Kanuri, Bagirmi, Kanembu, and the peoples of Wadai and Darfur; the few aborigines who persist, on the southern fringe of the Chad basin, are imperfectly known.
4
The Bambara themselves are perhaps only a distinct branch of the original Mandingo stock.