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The Susu people also utilize practices of the Bondo secret society which aims at gradually but firmly establishing attitudes related to adulthood in girls, discussions on fertility, morality and proper sexual comportment. The society also maintains an interest in the well-being of its members throughout their lives.
They have strong relationship with the Fullaa and Susu they are also widely spread in West Africa, being the third African Muslim to accept Islam after the Fullaa and Medingo. Sierra Leone's former president Ernest Bai Koroma is the first ethnic Temne to be elected to the office. The majority of the Temne support the All People's Congress. [1]
Pages in category "Susu people" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The first Guineans who emigrated to the United States were bought as slaves in colonial times. Many of them came from peoples such as Baga and the Susu [4] and hailed from places such as Fouta Djallon. [5] So, many slaves of day-present Guinea were Muslims (case of the Fulbes and the Susu people).
The Susu people, like other Manding-speaking peoples, have a caste system regionally referred to by terms such as Nyamakala, Naxamala and Galabbolalauba. According to David Conrad and Barbara Frank, the terms and social categories in this caste-based social stratification system of Susu people shows cases of borrowing from Arabic only, but the ...
Susu may refer to: Susu people or Soussou, an ethnic group in Guinea; Susu language, language spoken by this ethnic group; Sosso Empire, a twelfth-century Takrur kingdom of West Africa; Susu (savings), an informal savings account practiced in the Caribbean; Susu account, a saving scheme for poor people in Ghana; SUSU may refer to:
A susu or sou-sou or osusu or asue (also known as a merry-go-round, [1] Partner, or Pawdna in Jamaica; [2] sol in Haiti;, [3] san in Dominican Republic, [4] and Njangi in Cameroon [5]) is a form of rotating savings and credit association, a type of informal savings club arrangement between a small group of people who take turns by throwing hand as the partners call it.
Susu (endonym: Susu: Sosoxui; French: Soussou) is the language of the Susu or Soso people of Guinea and Sierra Leone, West Africa. It is in the Mande language family, and its closest relative is Yalunka. It is one of the national languages of Guinea and spoken mainly in the coastal region of the country.