Mandinka

Mandinka, Mandika, Mandinko, or Mandingo may refer to:

In culture

• the Mandinka people of West Africa
  • the Mandingo people of Sierra Leone
  • the Mandinka language
• Mandingo Wars (1883-1898), series of armed conflicts between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo people led by Samory Touré
• Wassoulou Empire, also known as the Mandinka Empire

In entertainment and media

• Mandingo (novel), a bestselling novel originally published in 1957
• Mandingo (film), a 1975 film based on the novel of the same name
  • Mandingo fighting, a fictional form of slave fighting (a reference to the film Mandingo) in Tarantino's Django Unchained
• "Mandinka" (song), by Sinéad O'Connor from her 1987 album The Lion and the Cobra
• Mandingo (play), a play by Jack Kirkland

In people

• Mandingo (actor), a male African American pornographic performer and director