For other uses of "Sherbro", see Sherbro (disambiguation).
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Sherbro people
Total population
134,606[1]
Regions with significant populations
Sierra Leone (Bonthe District and the Western Area)
Languages
Sherbro • Krio • English
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Krio, Gola
The Sherbro people are a native people of Sierra Leone, who speak the Sherbro language; they make up 1.9% of Sierra Leone's population or 134,606. The Sherbro are found primarily in their homeland in Bonthe District, where they make up 40% of the population, in coastal areas of Moyamba District, and in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, particularly in Freetown. During pre-colonial days, the Sherbro were one of the most dominant ethnic group in Sierra Leone, but in the early 21st century, the Sherbro comprise a small minority in the nation. The Sherbro speak their own language, called Sherbro language.
The Sherbro are divided into two main groups: the Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone, and the Sherbro in the Western Area of Sierra Leone. The Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone, which is home to most of the Sherbro population of Sierra Leone, are a close ally of their neighbor the Mende people, and most Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone speak the Mende language and they have integrated large amounts of the Mende tradition along with their native Sherbro tradition. However, the Sherbro in the Western Area (in and around Freetown) are traditionally allies of the Krio people; and Sherbro in the Western Area in Sierra Leone have also integrated large amounts of Krio tradition. Unlike most Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone, most Sherbro in the Western Area of Sierra Leone do not speak the Mende language. Politically the vast majority of Sherbro support the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). The current president of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, is a Mende-speaking ethnic Sherbro[2] from the Gola Rainforest region of the country.
The Sherbro are primarily fishermen and traders. They have a rich culture and have integrated some western culture and ideals. Their culture is unlike that of all other ethnic groups in Sierra Leone. The ethnic group in the nation whose culture is similar (in terms of embrace of Western culture) are the Krio people, descended largely from African Americans (known as Black Loyalists), who had been freed from slavery by the British during the American Revolutionary War, resettled in Nova Scotia, and then chose to go to Freetown in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. after the American Revolutionary War. The Sherbro and the Krio are close allies; they have intermarried since early colonial settlements in the 1790s.
The Sherbro have been an indigenous people in the territory now known as Sierra Leone. In the 18th century, they began to get involved in the slave trade and became more powerful than the European slave traders. They began to employ the Mende people to work for them to find slaves to meet the growing demand. In the 1920s, the Sherbro people were still being ruled by their own chiefs.
^"Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census National Analytical Report" (PDF). Statistics Sierra Leone. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^Alexander, O. (2022, May 21). Julius Maada Wonie Bio
(1964- ). "Global African History". www.blackpast.org. 22 May 2022.
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agent for the Royal African Company on York Island (now Sherbro, Sierra Leone). He married a Sherbro woman and had two sons with her before his early death...
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...
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its embrace of Western culture) are westernized members of the Sherbropeople. Many Sherbro assimilate as Creoles, as they share the Christian faith and...
producers in the country. This area was long dominated by the native Sherbropeople. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, there were marriages...
entered politics as the founder and inaugural leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party. Margai oversaw Sierra Leone's transition to independence, which...
was the most dominant king among all of the Sherbropeople. BAI SHERBRO KPANA LEWIS (ca. 1830-1912) SHERBRO CHIEF AND OPPONENT OF COLONIAL RULE at www...
information about the way of life of the Sherbropeople and others—including the Mende, Krim, and Temne peoples—who lived among them. The Central African...
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intermediary between the British colonial government and the Sherbro on the island. The people were also predominant in the nearby mainland region. From...
District in the Southern Province of British Sierra Leone, to an ethnic Sherbro mother and to a Lebanese father. Akar attended the E.U.B. primary school...
Sierra Leone, where he investigated the Sherbropeople. On his return from Sierra Leone, he published The Sherbro of Sierra Leone (1938), which included...
Caulker was born into one of the most powerful family dynasties among the Sherbropeople, in the territory now known as Moyamba District, Southern Province,...
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