The Bassa people are a West African ethnic group primarily native to Liberia. The Bassa people are a subgroup of the larger Kru people of Liberia and...
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Buchanan (Bassa: Gbezohn), also previously known as Grand Bassa on some maps, is the third largest city in Liberia, lying on Waterhouse Bay, part of the...
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Bassa people may refer to: Bassa people (Cameroon) Bassa people (Liberia) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bassa people...
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include Bété, Bassa, Krumen, Guéré, Grebo, Klao/Krao, Dida, Krahn people and Jabo people. During the Atlantic slave trade, Kru people were considered...
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characters in this article correctly. The Bassa language is a Kru language spoken by about 600,000 Bassa people in Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone. /ʄ/...
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highway. In the 16th century; Kru (Tajuasohn), Bassa, Belleh, Krahn, Grebo. Americo-Liberians: Free black people and emancipated slaves, and their descendants...
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Bassa people (Liberia) Bassa language, a member of the Kru languages family Bassa script Jeffrey Bassa (born 2002), American football player Bassa, Chamba...
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Lewis Penick Clinton (category Bassa people (Liberia))
Somayou Zea Clayou) (born 1865 or 1866) was a Prince of the Bassa people in West Africa (Liberia) and later an African American missionary and lecturer. Clinton...
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slaves of Bassa origin in Brazil and the West Indies who were still using the alphabet. Vai is another well known ancient script from Liberia, but distinct...
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Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free people of color from the United States. The emigration of African Americans, both freeborn and recently...
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Grand Bassa is a county in the west-central portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative...
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The Bassa (also spelled Basa or Basaa and sometimes known as Bassa-Bakongo) are a Bantu ethnic group in Cameroon. They number approximately 800,000 individuals...
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Charlyne Brumskine (category Bassa people (Liberia))
is a Liberian politician and philanthropist. She is leader of the Liberty Party. Brumskine is a Bassa woman who hails from Buchanan, Grand Bassa County...
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Americo-Liberian people (also known as Congo people or Congau people), are a Liberian ethnic group of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and liberated...
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elected Liberia president". BBC. June 22, 2018. Archived from the original on April 30, 2021. Retrieved September 7, 2018. "Liberia:Chaos Mars Grand Bassa and...
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Faithvonic (category Bassa people (Liberia))
Terryson, who is known professionally as Faithvonic, is a Liberian singer and songwriter from Grand Bassa County. She is also a fashion designer, graphic designer...
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Sundaygar Dearboy (category Bassa people (Liberia))
Sundaygar Dearboy, is a Liberian singer, songwriter and record producer from Grand Bassa County. He sings primarily in Bassa and Liberian English and has released...
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flag of Liberia, occasionally referred to as the Lone Star, bears a close resemblance to the flag of the United States, representing Liberia's founding...
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in Monrovia. He is the namesake of Buchanan, Liberia, the seat of Grand Bassa County. "Buchanan, Liberia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Miller, Randall M...
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African American politician in Liberia. He served in Colonial Council and as a senator from Grand Bassa County following Liberia's independence in 1847. He...
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Ephraim Titler (category People from Grand Bassa County)
(born 1800) was a Liberian politician and missionary who served as a delegate to the 1847 Constitutional Convention from Grand Bassa County. Titler was...
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Retrieved March 17, 2024. "Liberia: Liberty Party's Candidate Wins Grand Bassa Senatorial By-Election". Heritage Liberia. AllAfrica. May 10, 2013. Retrieved...
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is a city in District 1 of Grand Bassa County, Liberia. Located on the central portion of the Atlantic Coast of Liberia on the north shore of the mouth...
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Etweda Cooper (category People from Grand Bassa County)
movement. In 2010, she was elected mayor of Edina, Liberia. She then served as superintendent of Grand Bassa County from 2012 to 2015. Etweda Cooper was born...
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Monrovia (redirect from Capital of liberia)
mainly by ethnic Krus, but also by Bassas, Grebos and members of other ethnic groups. By 1926 ethnic groups from Liberia's interior began to migrate outwards...
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delimiters. Liberian English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Liberia. Four such varieties exist: Standard Liberian English, the Liberian variety...
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American settlers of Liberia in 1821. Charles Taylor, who ruled Liberia between 1997 and 2003, is of mixed Gola and Americo-Liberian ancestry. Ellen Johnson...
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(born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his...
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The United Methodist Church in Liberia is a member of the United Methodist Church, one of the world’s largest denominations. It is part of the Wesleyan...
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descendants of Americo-Liberian people in America. The majority of Liberians came to the United States during the First Liberian Civil War in the 1990s...
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