Naré Maghann Konaté was a 12th-century faama (king) of the Mandinka people, in what is today Mali.
The hunter predicted that if Konaté married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king.
Naré Maghann Konaté was already married to Sassouma Bereté and had a son by her, Dankaran Touman Keïta.
However, when two Traoré hunters from the Dô kingdom presented him an ugly, hunchbacked woman named Sogolon Condé, he remembered the prophecy and married her.
Sundiata nonetheless overcame both his handicap and his brother's scorn to eventually defeat the Sosso invader Soumaoro Kanté, thus ensuring the Mandinka's dominance over the region in the form of the Mali Empire.