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NYtimes article about “lɛkɛ” (West African jelly shoes) — Did you know that the name “lɛkɛ” comes from Jula? It’s “lɛ-kɛ” which means “pig-fat” literally. The name comes from the purported origin of the “jelly” of the shoes.
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The Longest (Maninka) Ethnography — Blog post by Jan Jansen about the online publication of an exhaustive ethnographic history book of the Maninka and Manding people that dates back to 1929 when Djiguiba Camara began to write it.
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