Bambara
(transboundary/brand name in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali)

(most common name):
• Bambara (Côte d’Ivoire, Mali)
• Méré (Burkina Faso)
(local/other name):
• Bambara (Burkina Faso)
• Mandé (Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali)
• Méré (Côte d’Ivoire, Mali)
local/other name (Dutch):
• Taurin du Kaarta (Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali)
local/other name (French):
• Djakoré (Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali)

The Bambara is named after the Bambara people of southwest Mali. The Bambara people are part of the Mandé family of ethnic groups in West Africa.

The Bambara is a stabilized crossbreed of Sudanese Fulani Zebu × N’Dama that shows very little of the zebu type.

(Bamana) Bambara = small, not zebu

As of 2021, the following population counts are listed in DAD-IS:
• 1984 - 510,000 (Burkina Faso)
• 1985 - 183,000 (Côte d’Ivoire)
• 1992 - 19,811 (Mal )

Varieties of N’Dama and stabilized/fixed N’Dama crosses include:
• Bambara
• Djakoré
• Gambian N’Dama
• N’Dama Grande
• N’Dama of Kaarta
• Guinean N’Dama
• N’Dama × Jersey
• N’Gabou
• Thomton (Boenca)

This page was last updated on: 2023-05-14

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