Category talk:Surnames of African origin

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This category was nominated for renaming on 12 April 2013. The result of the discussion was rename.

Thoughts on diffusion[edit]

There are some groupings:

Fula surnames‎ (already exists, articles now in subcat)

- Diakité is a Malian and Sengalese family name of Fula origin.
- Sidibé is a surname of Fula origin

The Mande languages are spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé people and include Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Dioula, Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are millions of speakers, chiefly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast.

The Manding languages are a fairly mutually intelligible group of dialects or languages in West Africa of the Mande family. Their best-known members are Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali; Mandinka, the main language of Gambia
- Diawara is the French transcription of a surname of Manding origin (the English transcription is Jawara), and may refer to:
- Jawara is the English transcription of a surname of Manding origin (the French transcription is Diawara),
- Mandinka (also known as Mandinko or Mandingo)
  - Conde (surname), Condé, Condeh or Kondeh is a common surname among the Mandinka people of West Africa,
  - Cissé (or Cisse) is a common West African name of Mandinko origin.
  - Daramy (surname) is a common surname among the Mandinka people of West Africa, and may refer to:
  - Kabbah (surname) or Kabba is a common surname among the Mandinka people of West Africa, and may refer to:
Mende language
- Bockarie (surname) is a common surname among the Mende people of Sierra Leone,

Other article are harder to categorise and include:

- Conteh (surname) is a common surname among the Limba people of Sierra Leone, and may refer to:
- Dembélé is a surname of African origin, found in Mali, Senegal and Ivory Coast.
- Emeagwali is a surname. Nigerian?
- Kamara may refer to: Places/ People with surname Sierra Leonean
- Koroma (surname) is a common surname among the Temne, Limba, and Loko people of Sierra Leone,
- Mahama is an African given name and surname. Ghanaian/Others
- Ouedraogo/Ouédraogo, sometimes Ouedraogo, is a surname taken from the French spelling of Wedraogo, semi-legendary son of princess Yennenga and founder of the Mossi Kingdom. (Burkinabé) Probably Mossi language.
- Touré (surname) is a surname. Notable people with the name include: various (Malian/Ivorian/Guinean/...)
- Traoré or Traore is a surname of Malian origin.

So we could make a Category:Mande languages surnames to catch the language group or the smaller Category:Mandinka language surnames.--Salix (talk): 23:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]