Dominique Sandusky
English 1109 Monday/ Wednesday
18 October 2016
Journal
Seven: Major tribes and ethnic groups in Sierra Leone
In
Sierra Leone there are three major tribes, Temne, Mende, and Limba. After
reading A Long Way Gone I was
interested in the different ethnic groups and tribes, and learning about their
differences.
The
largest ethnic group or tribe is Temne at about thirty-five percent of Sierra
Leones population. 1.6 million people speak the language, Temne. They live in
the Northern part of Sierra Leone and around the capital, Freetown. The
majority of Temne’s are Muslims with a small Christian minority. While doing my
research I found that Temne’s are mostly famers which include rice,
supplemented by groundnuts, cotton, cassava, and millet.
The
second largest tribe in Sierra Leone is Mende which is actually Ishmael Beah’s
tribe. It has thirty-one percent of their population. Mende refers to the
people and the language. They live in the Southern-Eastern part of Sierra Leone
and are made of mostly Muslims as well as Temne. In many ways Temne and Mende
are very similar. They are both farmers of a lot of the same crops, the same
ethnicity, and their name also refers to their language.
The Limba people is the third major ethnic
group, about 8.5% of Sierra Leone's total population (about 566,529 members). They
speak many different languages including Limba, Sierra Leone English, Krio.
They were mainly rice farmers, hunters and traders.
These are some people
from the Mende tribe.
The same tribe Ishmael Beah
belonged to.
I like how you give each ethnic groups percent from the total population of Sierra Leone.
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting, its so cool learning about different countries and there culture. You did an awesome job at describing the different tribes within one country.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading about the 3 different groups and how you give the percent of population.
ReplyDeleteYou did really well talking about the three different tribes and giving us information about the percent of each group that makes up the population.
ReplyDeleteI found the information very interesting.
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