- a member of an agricultural people living in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast.
- the Mande language of the Malinke people.
- a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in Guinea and Mali, noted for their use of cowry shells as currency
- the language of this people, belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family
