Christianity, African traditional religions, Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Bassa, Jabo, Krahn, Grebo
Kru canoers depicted by French engraver Alluaud
The Kru, Krao, Kroo, or Krou are a West African ethnic group who are indigenous to western Ivory Coast and eastern Liberia. European and American writers often called Kru men who enlisted as sailors or mariners Krumen. They migrated and settled along various points of the West African coast, notably Freetown, Sierra Leone, but also the Ivorian and Nigerian coasts.[2] The Kru-speaking people are a large ethnic group that is made up of several sub-ethnic groups in Liberia and Ivory Coast. In Liberia, there are 48 sub-sections of Kru tribes, including the Jlao Kru.[3] These tribes include Bété, Bassa, Krumen, Guéré, Grebo, Klao/Krao, Dida, Krahn people and Jabo people.
^"Liberia - World Directory of Minorities & Indigenous Peoples". Minority Rights Group. June 19, 2015.
^Gunn, Jeffrey (2021). Outsourcing African Labor: Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century (1 ed.). Germany: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3110680225.
^Tonkin, Elizabeth (1978). "Sasstown's Transformation: The Jlao Kru, 1888-1918". Liberian Studies Journal. 8 (1): 1–34.
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the year. However, if Cambodians become ill, they will frequently see a kru khmae (shaman/healer), whom they believe can diagnose which of the many spirits...
the coast of West and Central Africa. Like the Krupeople of Sierra Leone and Liberia, business people, migrant workers, travelers, and musicians who...
Faso, Niger), the Bate, the Kissi, the Dan, the Logoli, the Gagu and Krupeoples, the Mano, Bassa Grebo and Kwanko (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Togo), the Tallensi...
Republic of Maryland, was forced by an insurgency of the Grebo and the Krupeople to join Liberia. Liberia's expansion brought the colony into border disputes...
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Africans for the day to day operation of their activities," notably the Krupeople. John Rankin of East Tennessee State University has stated that "African...
to a DNA analysis, she is descended, mainly, from Mende people of Sierra Leone and of Krupeople of Liberia. Taylor is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority...
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hardcore scenes. He released a variety of singles under the pseudonym Rufige Kru and co-founded the label Metalheadz. He later released several albums under...
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annexes the Republic of Maryland as native groups (notably Grebo people and Krupeople) continually attack and kill settlers in Cape Palmas. The first...
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