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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.
- Aboubacar Barry, Alliances peules en pays samo, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004, p. 124 (in French)
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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)