Soninke people

Yeah, yeah.

Soninka, we have our own way of doing it.

Yeah, of doing it.

If there's a, o- anyone who's a Mandinka, Fula, you do it in, in- Yeah, your cultural way ...

Sure.

So within both Bidhan or Arab Moor communities and within Fula or Soninke or Wolof pre-colonial communities, livelihoods differed quite a bit.

The former were generally, uh, nomadic pastoralists, the latter, uh, generally but not exclusively sedentary farmers.

But across each of those community groups that would come to occupy the Mauritanian citizenry, you have a ...