31729 Malian Sign Language 40,000-60,000 "If profound deafness is between 0.3 percent and 0.5 percent in Mali as well, this would mean the number of deaf Malians is between 40,000 and 65,000. One medical study on deafness in a Malian population has found that 76 percent of forty-six deaf pupils of the Ecole pour les deficients auditifs (EDA) have noncongenital deafness, for which meningitis was found to be the main cause."
"In Bamako the LSM user community consists mainly of men." The sign language situation in Mali On