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Bambara

Bambara or Bambarra may refer to:

  • Bambara people, an ethnic group, primarily in Mali
    • Bambara language, their language, a Manding language
    • Bamana Empire, a state that flourished in present-day Mali (1640s–1861)
  • Bambara (beetle), a genus of feather-winged beetles
  • Bambara groundnut, a traditional food crop in Africa (Vigna subterranea)
  • Bambarra, a settlement on Middle Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands

Usage examples of "bambara".

Motion slowed, turned sluggish as the Bambara dropped below aerodynamic stallspeed and shifted to direct vertical lift.

Africa, to the work in wood and metal of the Bambara of the upper Niger and a host of others: the products of an African consciousness and cosmogony and care for the decorative arts of life that made, and make, a world of their own.