Liberia: Information on the Mandingo system of property inheritance
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 May 1996 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | LBR23998.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Liberia: Information on the Mandingo system of property inheritance, 1 May 1996, LBR23998.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aab8c.html [accessed 1 June 2023] |
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During a 27 May 1996 telephone interview, a professor of history at the University of Texas in Arlington, Texas stated that Mandingo society is patrilineal. He added that among the Mandingo tribe, male children have a greater right to property than female children and the eldest son has the right to administer the estate. He explained that, in cases of conflict among heir children, the members of the extended family have to meet and attempt to find a solution to the conflict.
A representative at the Embassy of Liberia in Washington, DC, stated during a 27 May 1996 telephone interview that the Mandingo system of property inheritance is based upon the transfer from the father to the son.
Please find attached articles on the Mandingo tribe, which may be of interest.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
References
Embassy of the Republic of Liberia, Washington, DC. 27 May 1996. Telephone interview.
Professor of history, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas. 27 May 1996. Telephone interview.
Attachments
Liberia: A Country Study. 1984. Edited by Harold D. Nelson. Washington, DC: Secretary of the Army, pp. xiv, 89, 292.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1989. 15th ed. Vol. 7. Edited by Philip W. Goetz. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, p. 765.
Newton, Alex and David Else. October 1995. 3rd ed. West Africa: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorn, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, p. 505.
