Mangé Demba

Mangé Demba also Mungo Demba, (17??-1822) was a Baga King (Mangé) who held sway over a region in West Africa which stretched along ninety miles of the Guinea coast and extending up to two hundred miles inland.^[1]^:1

Demba's mother was probably Maboye, daughter of the King of Tomboli, and his father probably Sumba Tumani.^[1]^:1

References

1 2 McLachlan, Peter (1999). Mouser, Bruce, ed. Travels into the Baga and Soosoo countries in 1821. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik. ISBN 3-932632-42-7. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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