Sherbro Island, an island off the coast of Sierra Leone
Sherbro River, a river in Sierra Leone
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Sherbro Island is in the Atlantic Ocean, and is included within Bonthe District, Southern Province, Sierra Leone. The island is separated from the African...
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...
The Sherbro language (also known as Southern Bullom, Shiba, Amampa, Mampa, and Mampwa) is an endangered language of Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Mel...
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...
District in the south are the Sherbro. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. The Sherbro are primarily fisherman and...
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...
Corker English agent for the Royal African Company 1669 - 1700 Senora Doll Sherbro princess or 'Duchess' of the Ya Kumba ruling house of the Yawri Bay Area...
Sherbro International Airport (IATA: BTE, ICAO: GFBN) was an international airport located outside the town of Bonthe on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone....
District in the south are the Sherbro. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. The Sherbro are primarily fisherman and...
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...
capital is the town of Bonthe Island and its largest city is Bonthe, on Sherbro Island. As of the 2015 census, the district had a population of 200,730...
(producing Afro-European clans such as the Sherbro Tuckers and Sherbro Caulkers). As a result, some of the Sherbro have a more westernized culture than that...
marriage, in 1965, was to Patricia Tucker, a devout Christian from the Sherbro ethnic group and a native of Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone....
Ethiopia, the De Souza family of Benin, the Zulfikar family of Egypt and the Sherbro Tucker clan of Sierra Leone, claim descent from notables from outside of...
Sierra Leone rivers as well as in neighboring areas such as the Bullom and Sherbro coasts. These settlers intermarried with the local population leading to...
carried. He was himself enslaved by the Sherbro and forced to work on a plantation in Sierra Leone near the Sherbro River. After several months he came to...
successful ship owner and in 1815, he attempted a settlement for freedmen on Sherbro Island. By 1811, he had transported some members of the Free African Society...
Sierra Leone, where he investigated the Sherbro people. On his return from Sierra Leone, he published The Sherbro of Sierra Leone (1938), which included...
District in the south are the Sherbro. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. The Sherbro are primarily fisherman and...
years. 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...
University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108562423.002 Misevich, “The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora,” 254. Curtin, P., & Vansina, J. (1964). Sources of the Nineteenth...
Southern Bullom (Krim and Sherbro) and Northern Bullom (Bullom So). The languages are: Bom (Krim), Bullom So (Mmani), Sherbro. They are closely related...
groups, 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...
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