Naré Maghann Konaté
Nare Maghann Konate (died c. 1218) was a 12th-century faama (king) of the Mandinka people, in what is today called Mali. He was the father of Sundiata Keita, who founded the Mali Empire, and a character in the oral tradition of the Epic of Sundiata.
The Epic of Sundiata
In the Epic of Sundiata, Nare Maghann Konate (also called Maghan Kon Fatta or Maghan the Handsome) was a Mandinka king who one day received a God-related hunter at his court. The hunter predicted that if Konate married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king. Nare Maghann Konate was already married to Sassouma Berte and had a son by her, Dankaran Touman Keita. However, when two Traore hunters from the Do kingdom presented him an ugly, hunchbacked woman named Sogolon, he remembered the prediction and married her. She soon gave birth to a son, Sundiata, who was unable to walk throughout most of his childhood until 7 years old.
Malian people
1218 deaths
12th-century births