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This will be very useful to whoever is doing language. I emailed Professor Hill to confirm that the Bambara are also known as Bamana, which seems to be correct. I would start by looking at page 12 of this. This is the section of the text Professor Hill sent to me: "Bambara is probably the most widespread, dominant language in West Africa. It is the principal language of Mali and is a second language for many. An estimate of the number of speakers is 1.5 million (Platiel 1978). Those who understand some Bambara are between four and five million. Bambara speakers call themselves banmana, and their language bamanakan. The general region of Bambara (see figure 4.3) is from Djenne, to Segou, to Bamako (the acknowledged center of the language); north to Kaarta region (150 kilometers east of Bafoulabe). There is also a Bambara dialect in eastern Senegal. There is also a "trade" version of Bambara, having a similar role in Mali as Dyula has in Ivory Coast. There is a "standard" version of Bambara, which Radio Mali uses, as well as established primers, orthography, newspapers, adult literacy, lexiques, dictionaries, and many guides for Bambara instruction. There is a Bible (1961), and much technical work has been carried out, notably by Charles Bird and also by Maurice Houis."

This site has a general overview of the Bambara culture

Joshua Project overview of Bambara people

Interesting information of the art of the Bambara

Another website that has a lot of general information on all sections of Bambara life/history.

Whoever is doing religion, it might be worthwhile to get a hold of this book

This article gives a description of many aspects of bambara culture including demography, history, economy, trade, division of labor etc.

I got a lot of quick facts from this website. It's a good overview

I plan on using this case study for my page on family structure

This gives a general overview of the people in Mali in general, however there are specific details that they give about the Bambara

Gives a brief overview on the economy, religion, history and political systems. Note the bambara are also known as the bamana

This part of the Encyclopedia talks about the religion, history, social life and rituals of the bambara beginning on page 100