Bambara is the best-documented language in the Mande language family. Various teaching materials are available in German: a textbook (Raimund Kastenholz), a workbook (Mohamed and Kadidia Touré), and a reader (Mohamed Touré). Information

 
Bambara is still primarily used in spoken communication. The Internet offers many opportunities to hear the language, including recordings of folktales. You can listen to a sample here, among other places. Various films in Bambara are also available online, some of which include subtitles. Here is one example.

There are now countless collections of oral literature spanning various genres: epic texts (e.g., Sumanguru Kante,  Nyagalen), proverbs, and folktales. Alongside Gérard Dumestre Father Charles Bailleul has made a particularly significant contribution to transcribing and publishing these works. Online publications, among others of periodicals, can be downloaded here.

For Bambara students interested in linguistics, there are numerous articles and books on the Bambara language. In addition to Gérard Dumestre’s comprehensive  grammar and Valentin Vydrin’s latest grammar which provides access to audio examples, the journal Mandenkan in particular provides a forum for scholarly discussions on various aspects of Bambara and other Manding languages. A scholarly printed Bambara dictionary is also available.

A Bambara–French and French–Bambara dictionary, which is constantly being expanded by Valentin Vydrin’s team, is available online . It is linked to the Bambara text corpus. A small dictionary with 3,000 entries is also available online. Unfortunately, this one lacks tone transcriptions.

News in Bambara is provided by Radio France International (rfi); the broadcasting in Bambara by Voice Of America has unfortunately been interrupted since 2025.

 The radio station  Studio Tamani broadcasts directly from Mali