The Mano of Guinea, numbering approximately 111,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Mande people descended from the Soumano clan of the Mali Empire's Gbara council, who migrated south into forested highlands from the 13th century to settle Guinea-Liberia border lands, maintaining separate poro and sande initiation schools They are an Indigenous people, with Mano as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Mande people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Animism and Mano is their primary language.