Complex sentence: Maninka music traces its roots back more than eight centuries to a folkloric epoch at the time of the great Mansa Sunjata during the great Mande-centered Mali Empire, and his semi-mythic rivallry with ruler Soumaoro Kante.
Split into simpler sentences: Maninka music traces its roots back more than eight centuries. We see a folkloric epoch during the time of the great Mansa Sunjata at the time of the great Mande centered Mali Empire, and his semi-mythic his rivallry with ruler Soumaoro Kante.