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and hunchback. The messengers found
Sogolon's children in Mema, and persuaded Sundiata to return home and liberate his people and their homeland. Sogolon had died prior to the messengers' arrival in Mema. Accompanied by a force of soldiers given to him by the King of Mema, Sundiata returned home with
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Sogolon Condé is remembered as a loving and supportive mother, who despite her lack of physical "beauty" and hunchback, and having "faced severe hardship", and giving birth to a disabled son for which she was much ridiculed for, she overcame that and helped her son overcame his disability. Upon the
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Sogolon had great ambitions for her son, and is regarded as the source of
Sundiata's greatness. According to David Conrad et al., she is "one of the great heroines of Manding oral tradition, and her death is invariably noted as a significant event" in the narrative."
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they traversed seeking protection. She was eventually granted asylum by the King of Mema (or Nema) Mansa Farin
Tunkara. In Mema, Sogolon encouraged his disabled son Sundiata to fulfill his destiny, and return to Mali (Manden) and take the throne.
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praises Sundiata Keita, he is sometimes praised through his mother Sogolon, for example one of the many names ascribed to Sundiata Keita is "Sogolon Djata/Jata", which in
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