The Sherbro people are a native people of Sierra Leone, who speak the Sherbro language; they make up 1.9% of Sierra Leone's population or 134,606. The...

Sherbro Island is in the Atlantic Ocean, and is included within Bonthe District, Southern Province, Sierra Leone. The island is separated from the African...

language family. While Sherbro has more speakers than the other Bullom languages, its use is declining among the Sherbro people, in favor of Krio and English...

In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Peye, a woman of the Sherbro people in what is now Sierra Leone. He was rescued, returned to sea and the...

The Tuckers of Sherbro are[citation needed] an Afro-European clan from the Southern region of Sierra Leone. The clan's progenitors were an English trader...

Sherbro may refer to: Sherbro people, a people of Sierra Leone Sherbro language, a language of Sierra Leone Sherbro Island, an island off the coast of...

Julius Maada Wonie Bio, who was also a Sherbro paramount chief of Sogbini Chiefdom. Bio is an ethnic Sherbro, and a practicing Roman Catholic. Bio began...

Tihun. Farming is the major economic production in the chiefdom. The Sherbro people make up the overwhelming majority of the population of Sogbini Chiefdom...

made up of two main ethnic groups; the Sherbro and Mende. Bonthe district is the native home of the Sherbro people who make up a large minority of the district...

agent for the Royal African Company on York Island (now Sherbro, Sierra Leone). He married a Sherbro woman(Princess) and had two sons with her before his...

on Sherbro Island in Bonthe District in the southern Province of Sierra Leone. The town lies on the eastern shore of Sherbro Island, on the Sherbro River...

located west of Sherbro Island in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. Of the eight islands, seven are inhabited. Sherbro people are the predominant...

its embrace of Western culture) are westernized members of the Sherbro people. Many Sherbro assimilate as Creoles, as they share the Christian faith and...

producers in the country. This area was long dominated by the native Sherbro people. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, there were marriages...

University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108562423.002 Misevich, “The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora,” 254. Curtin, P., & Vansina, J. (1964). Sources of the Nineteenth...

intermediary between the British colonial government and the Sherbro on the island. The people were also predominant in the nearby mainland region. From...

entered politics as the founder and inaugural leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party. Margai oversaw Sierra Leone's transition to independence, which...

was the most dominant king among all of the Sherbro people. BAI SHERBRO KPANA LEWIS (ca. 1830-1912) SHERBRO CHIEF AND OPPONENT OF COLONIAL RULE at www...

inhabited by the Sherbro people. The village is known for its traditional secret society. The village of Baw Baw was founded by a group of Sherbro fishermen...

Sierra Leone, where he investigated the Sherbro people. On his return from Sierra Leone, he published The Sherbro of Sierra Leone (1938), which included...

(History of Sierra Leone) Bullom Loko (Loko people) Bureh/Bure Sherbro (Sherbro people) Baté Empire (16th century–19th century AD) Idoma Kingdom Gonja...

although the Sherbro are the largest ethnic group in the town, followed by the Temne people. Bureh Town was founded by the Sherbro people, and the town...

information about the way of life of the Sherbro people and others—including the Mende, Krim, and Temne peoples—who lived among them. The Central African...

economic activity in Tihun is farming. Tihun is the native home of the Sherbro people who are the vast majority in the town. Tihun is the birthplace of Sierra...

firms and princesses of the Sherbro people created a number of aristocratic families such as the Sherbro Tuckers and the Sherbro Caulkers. Due to matrilineality...

population in Newton but there is a significant population of the Krio and Sherbro people, and a large population of both Muslims and Christians. Newton is named...

Crozierville. The original "Congo people" were settled in New Georgia. In 1821, the ship Elizabeth from New York landed on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone with 86...

Euro-Africans Saro people Sherbro Hubris Sherbro Tuckers Sherbro Caulkers Sherbro Rogers Sherbro Clevelands Sierra Leone Creole people Africans were transported...

round election runoff by the SLPP candidate Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. An ethnic Sherbro, Karefa-Smart was educated at the EUB[citation needed]. Primary School...

District in the Southern Province of British Sierra Leone, to an ethnic Sherbro mother and to a Lebanese father. Akar attended the E.U.B. primary school...