What is Naré Maghann Konaté?
'''Naré Maghann Konaté''' (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, Naré Maghann Konaté (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 Konaté married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king. Naré Maghann Konaté was already married to [[Sassouma Berté]] and had a son by her, [[Dankaran Touman Keïta]]. However, when two Traoré 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. [[Category:Malian people]] [[Category:1218 deaths]] [[Category:12th-century births]]