Photo courtesy of Joshua Project.By Link Up Africa
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QUICK FACTS:
People groups: 12
Population: 3,853,700
Unreached people groups: 12
UPG population: 3,853,700
Unengaged UPGs: 5
UUPG population: 626,000
Number of countries: 8
Affinity Bloc: Sub-Saharan African
Overview: The Soninke are a Mande people who descended from the Bafour of Mauritania and are closely related to the Imraguen of Mauritania. Ethnologue classifies five Mande languages as Soninke-Boso. The people groups that speak these five languages comprise the Soninke people cluster.
Peoples within this cluster: Bozo, Hain; Bozo, Sorogoye; Bozo, Tieyaxo; Soninke
Countries where they are found: Burkina Faso; Cote d’Ivoire; Gambia; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Mauritania; Senegal; United States
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