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Naré Maghann Konaté
12th-century faama of the Mandinka people

Naré Maghann Konaté

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12th-century faama of the Mandinka people
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Niani village, Guinea
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77 years
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Moussa Allakoï
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Naré Maghann Konaté (died c. 1218) was a 12th-century faama (king) of the Mandinka people, in what is today Mali.He was the father of Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire, and a character in the oral tradition of the Epic of Sundiata.

The Epic of Sundiata

In the Epic of Sundiata, Naré Maghann Konaté (also called Maghan Kon Fatta or Maghan the Handsome) was a Mandinka king who one day received a divine hunter at his court.The hunter predicted that if Konaté married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king.Naré Maghann Konaté was already married to Sassouma Berté and had a son by her, Dankaran Touman Keïta.However, when two Traoré hunters from the Do kingdom presented him an ugly, hunchbacked woman named Sogolon; he remembered the prophecy and married her.She soon gave birth to a son, Sundiata, who was unable to walk throughout most of his childhood until 7 years old.

After Naré Maghann Konaté's death (c. 1218), his first son, Dankaran Toumani Keita, assumed the throne despite Konaté's wishes that the prophecy be respected.Sundiata nonetheless overcame both his handicap and his brother's scorn to eventually defeat the Sosso invader Soumaoro Kanté, thus ensuring the Mandinka's dominance over the region in the form of the Mali Empire.

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