Mandinka Invaders who attacked West African coastal societies
The Manes (so called by the Portuguese), Mani or Manneh were invaders who attacked the western coast of Africa in what is now Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone throughout much of the sixteenth century.[1]
^J. F. Ade Ajayi and Ian Espie, A Thousand Years of West African History (Ibadan University Press, 1965), p. 153.