Kanté, Soumaoro, active 13th century

found: International Conference on Manding Studies, 1972, Camara, Laye. Le rêve dans la société traditionnelle malinké:page 1 (Sosso Koudou Soumaoro; Soumaoro; a dream about him before the battle of Kirina, told by Balla Fassaké Kouyaté [griot of Soundiata])

found: Green, Toby. A fistful of shells, 2019:pages 44-45 (Sumanguru Kante, vanquished predecessor of Sunjata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire; Sumanguru was a sorcerer, a follower of African religious practice in contrast to Sunjata, who was Muslim; Sumaworo, in Mandinka or Bambara excerpt) page 49 (Sumanguru Kante, sorcerer-king)

found: Wikipedia, July 29, 2022(Soumaoro Kanté, also known as Sumaworo Kanté or Sumanguru Kanté; 13th-century king of the Sosso people; he seized Koumbi Saleh, capital of the recently defunct Ghana Empire and conquered several neighboring states, including the Mandinka, whose prince Sundiata Keita then built a coalition of smaller kingdoms to oppose him at the Battle of Kirina, c. 1235, defeating the Sosso and leaving Sundiata's new Mali Empire dominant in the region; portrayed as a villainous sorcerer-king in the Epic of Sundiata, the national epic of Mali)

found: The epic of Sumanguru Kante, 2017:pages 14-18 (discussion of the historicity of the Sumanguru epic; in Manding culture Sumanguru and his fellow epic actors are historical characters, many of them apical ancestors of clans; 14th-century North African historian Ibn Khaldun named ancient Mali's 'greatest king' as Mari Jata (plausibly identified with Sunjata) and described how this king vanquished the Susu; Sumanguru is not mentioned in that or any other written source so far discovered before the late 19th century; the earliest [written] references to Sumanguru that we possess were made by French military officers in the 1880s and 1890s) pages 152-153 (there are conflicting accounts of Sumanguru's demise in the Sunjata epic: that he was turned into stone, that he disappeared into a mountain, or that he was killed by Sunjata; rock formations and a cave on Nyanankuru, a hill near Koulikoro, are associated with Sumanguru)

found: International Conference on Manding Studies, 1972. Leynaud, E., and Y. Cisse. Note sur l'histoire de la Haute Vallée du Niger (Mandé):page 13 (Soumangourou Kanté, chief of the Sosso; at the beginning of the 13th century the Sosso had devastated [the empire of] Ghana (Wagadou) and Soumangourou attacked the Manding, and massacred Naré-Fa-Maghan and 9 of his 11 children; one of the survivors, Dankarantuma, fled to Kissi country and his descendants there carry the collective name of Léno; the other survivor, Soundyata, disabled, was spared by Soumangourou)