Not to be confused with Kisi people or Kisii people.
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Kissi
mano
Orchestra of Kissi musicians in 1900
Total population
c. 1,224,545
Regions with significant populations
Guinea
798,429 (6.2%)[1]
Liberia
250,273 (4.8%)[2]
Sierra Leone
175,843 (4.5%) [3]
Languages
Kissi, French, English, Krio
Religion
Christianity, Traditional, Islam[4]
Related ethnic groups
Mende people, Loma people, Kpelle people, Mano people, Kono people, Vai people, Gbandi people
The Kissi people are a West African ethnolinguistic group.[5] They are the fourth largest ethnic group in Guinea, making up 6.2% of the population.[6] Kissi people are also found in Liberia and Sierra Leone. They speak the Kissi language, which belongs to the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family.[7] The Kissi are well known for making baskets and weaving on vertical looms. In past times, they were also famous for their ironworking skills, as the country and its neighbors possessed rich iron deposits. Kissi smiths produced the famous "Kissi penny,"
The Kissi people are also called Assi, Bakoa, Den, Gihi, Gisi, Gissi, Gizi, Kisi, Kisia, Kisie, Kisiye, Kizi, or Kalen[8][9]
^"Guinea - The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^"Liberia - The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^"Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census National Analytical Report" (PDF). Statistics Sierra Leone. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^"Liberia Liberia Ethnicity". hub.arcgis.com. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^Peter Austin (2008). One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost. University of California Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0520-25-560-9.
^"The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency". Cia.gov. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
^Bankole Kamara Taylor (2014). Sierra Leone: The Land, Its People and History. New Africa Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-9987-16-038-9.
^George Tucker Childs (22 July 2011). A Grammar of Kisi. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1. ISBN 978-3110-81-088-2.
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name "Geechee", another common name for the Gullah people, may derive from the name of the Kissipeople, an ethnic group living in the border area between...
of its production among Gbandi (Bandi), Gola, Kissi, Kpelle, Loma, Mandinka and Mende and other people of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Conakry. West...
went further into the mountains to settle among the Kuranko, Limba and Kissipeople. In the midst some were raided by Almamy Samori Toure during the Wassoulou...
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writing script contains at least 185 characters. The Mandinka, Koniaka, and Kissi refer to the Loma as Toma. Loma refer to themselves as Löömàgìtì (IPA: [lɔːmàɡìtì]...
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earliest time to the present. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190053796. Kissi, Edward (2006). Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia. Lexington...
(September 1898 – October 2000) was a long-serving paramount chief of the Kissipeople, Lofa County, Liberia. Taylor served as part of the collective presidency...
border. The principal inhabitants of gendema are the Mende, Vai and Kissipeople. "Travelogue On the road to Liberia Border- the Good, bad and ugly"....
mutineers in what is now Uganda. Kissi 1905 Most awards were to the West African Frontier Force in a dispute with the Kissipeople in Sierra Leone. Nandi 1905–06...
CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Person, Yves (1961). "Les Kissi et Leurs Statuettes de Pierre". Bulletin de IFAN. 23. Johnson, Barbara C...
Kissi Kaba Keita was a Kissi warrior and chief in the 19th century who managed to unite many Kissi chiefdoms under his reign and resist French conquest...
Kissi Agyebeng is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic, and the Special Prosecutor of Ghana as of 2021. Prior to his appointment, he was a lecturer at the University...
the same region in West Africa, a series of soapstone figures from the Kissipeople in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the Torday collection of Central African...
of many to have very involved funeral practices. For example, for the Kissipeople who inhabit part of Sierra Leone, it is important to bury the bodies...
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exquisite Afro-Portuguese ivories, a series of soapstone figures from the Kissipeople in Sierra Leone and Liberia, hoard of bronze Kru currency rings from...
Kissi, Mandingo and the Fula. The major economic activities in the district are farming, diamond mining and trade. The large majority of the people of...
Kiston Akomea Kissi (born 4 July 1957) is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the Third Parliament of the Fourth Republic representing the Akwatia Constituency...
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