Samo people

Portrait of a young Samo woman in Burkina Faso by Dutch anthropologist Jan Broekhuijse, 1970-1971. Collection Tropenmuseum.

The Samo (also Sanan) is a sub-ethnic group of the Mandinka people from West Africa. They mainly live in northwest Burkina Faso and across the border in southern Mali.

See also

• Samo language (Burkina)

References

• Aboubacar Barry, Alliances peules en pays samo, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004, p. 124 (in French)
• Françoise Héritier, L'Exercice de la parenté, Gallimard, Seuil, Paris, 1981, p. 199 (in French)
• André Nyamba, L'identité et le changement social des Sanan du Burkina Faso, Université Bordeaux 2, 1992, 2 vol., p. 758 (in French)