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The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic group at 35.5% of the total population, which is slightly larger than the Mende at 31.2%.[1][3] The Mende are predominantly found in the Southern Province and the Eastern Province. The Mende are mostly farmers and hunters. Some of the major cities with significant Mende populations include Bo, Kenema, Kailahun, and Moyamba.
Like a majority of African nations, Sierra Leone's political parties are often tied to specific ethnic groups and have been dominated by the Mende, on the one hand, and the Temne and their long-time political allies, the Limba, on the other. The Mende are known to typically support the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), while the Temnes and Limbas are associated with the All People's Congress party (APC).
^ ab"Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census National Analytical Report" (PDF). Statistics Sierra Leone. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^"Liberia - World Directory of Minorities & Indigenous Peoples". Minority Rights Group. June 19, 2015.
The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic group at 35.5% of...
It is spoken by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. Mende is a tonal language belonging...
neighbor the Mendepeople, and most Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone speak the Mende language and they have integrated large amounts of the Mende tradition...
Madam Yoko or Mammy Yoko (ca. 1849–1906) was a leader of the Mendepeople in Sierra Leone. Combining advantageous lineage, shrewd marriage choices and...
slightly bigger than the Mendepeople at 31.2%. They speak Temne, a Mel branch of the Niger–Congo languages. The Temne people migrated from the Futa Jallon...
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Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave traders and illegally...
330,000 in the two countries in 2010. They are closely related to the Mendepeople. The Loma speak a language in the Southwestern branch of the Mande languages...
of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), Bio defeated Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress (APC) in the runoff vote of...
Moyamba District, in the Southern Province of British Sierra Leone to Mende parents. He was the oldest of eighteen children. At the time of his birth...
people are a West African ethnolinguistic group. They are the fourth largest ethnic group in Guinea, making up 6.2% of the population. Kissi people are...
based on DNA. He has also been vested with a chieftaincy title of the Mendepeople in appreciation for his work in the country, taking the regnal name of...
and legs. He was also accused of recruiting child soldiers and abducting people to fight with him, and of attacking UN peacekeepers working under UNAMSIL...
Mohamed Kallon MOR (born 6 October 1979) is a Sierra Leonean football manager and former player who played as a striker. He played for Inter Milan from...
in the life of the Mendepeople - one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone. Art historian Ruth Phillips writes that Mende masquerades "are a...
mutinied on the schooner La Amistad. in June 1839, 49 members of the Mendepeople in modern day Sierra Leone were captured and put on the Spanish ship...
leading to the torture and killing of accused children. Sierra Leone's Mendepeople see witchcraft convictions as beneficial, as the accused receive support...
approximately 18 ethnic groups, with the Temne and Mendepeoples being predominant. The Creole people, descendants of freed African-American, Afro-Caribbean...
figurines are often associated with the Mendepeople as they are often buried on Mende land. The Mende and Kissi people of Sierra Leone place these small statues...
biological parents that he is of West African descent, specifically the Mendepeople (found mostly in Sierra Leone as well as Guinea and Liberia). From the...
leading to the torture and killing of accused children. Sierra Leone's Mendepeople see witchcraft convictions as beneficial, as the accused receive support...
1989 Evidence suggests that Angelou was partially descended from the Mendepeople of West Africa. In 2008, a DNA test revealed that among all of her African...
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