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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%.
The Mende are a Muslim majority group, though with a large Christian minority. The Mende, who are believed to be descendants of the Mane, originally occupied the Liberian hinterland. They began moving into Sierra Leone slowly and peacefully in the eighteenth century. The vast majority of the Mende support the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). [1]
Following the fall of the great Empires of the Northern Mandé-speaking people (Mandinka and Soninke ethnic groups), the presence of other Mandé-speaking people came about. These were the Mane , Southern Mandé speakers ( Mende , Gbandi , Kpelle , Loma ethnic groups) who invaded the western coast of Africa from the east during the first half ...
This is a list of Mandé peoples of Africa.. The predominant countries of each group's residence are shown in bold and are italicised. Manding (whose languages are in the Manding languages group of Mande)
The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, accounting for 33.2 percent of the country’s population. The tribe is generally found in the east and the south of the country ...
Mende / ˈ m ɛ n d i / [2] (Mɛnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia and Guinea. It is spoken by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. [3] Mende is a tonal language belonging to the Mande language family.
The Gullah/Geechee people speak a language based mainly on Sierra Leonean Krio, [18] a creole deriving from English, indigenous West African languages, and other European languages. The Gullah language also has varying degrees of influences from African languages such as Ewe, Mandinka, Igbo, Twi, Yoruba, and Mende.
People of Mende descent (1 C) K. Kposowa family (4 P) M. Margai family (Sierra Leone) (4 P) Mende language (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Mende people"