The Bafours were the original inhabitants of Mauritania
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The Bafours were the original inhabitants of Mauritania
Mauritania
Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest.... , and the ancestors to the Imraguen
Imraguen
The Imraguen are an ethnic group or tribe of Mauritania and Western Sahara. Estimated at around 5000 in the 1970s, most members of the group live in fishing villages on the Banc d'Arguin National Park on the Atlantic coast of Mauritania.... and Soninke
Soninke
The Soninke are a Mand? people who descend from the Bafour and are closely related to the Imraguen of Mauritania. They were the founders of the ancient Ghana Empire c.... people of western Africa. They were primarily agriculturalist and agro-pastoralists, and were relatively stationary. However, at the time they lived in Mauritania, it was far more fertile than it is today. They emigrated south to more fertile areas.
