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Ethnic group native to West Africa

Portrait of a young Samo woman in Burkina Faso by Dutch anthropologist Jan Broekhuijse, 1970-1971. Collection Tropenmuseum.

The Samo (also Sanan) is a sub-ethnic group of the Mandinka people from West Africa. They mainly live in northwest Burkina Faso and across the border in southern Mali.

See also

Samo language (Burkina)

References

Aboubacar Barry, Alliances peules en pays samo, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004, p. 124 (in French)
Françoise Héritier, L'Exercice de la parenté, Gallimard, Seuil, Paris, 1981, p. 199 (in French)
André Nyamba, L'identité et le changement social des Sanan du Burkina Faso, Université Bordeaux 2, 1992, 2 vol., p. 758 (in French)