Sherbro people
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Total population | |
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134,606 Krio, Gola |
The Sherbro people are a
The Sherbro are divided into two main groups: the Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone, and the Sherbro in the
The Sherbro are primarily
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.
History
The Sherbro were one of many indigenous peoples living in the territory of Sierra Leone before the colonial era. The first interaction with
The English followed soon after and, in the 1620s, they had a number of agents trading and purchasing items in the Sherbro Country. The Sherbro intermarried with them. Like the later Krio, who developed in Sierra Leone after the colony was established, the Sherbro have a more westernized culture than that of other indigenous ethnic groups there.[3] From the beginning of the settlement of liberated slaves in Sierra Leone, the ancestors of the Krio generally intermarried with their allies the Sherbro.
Relationship with the Krios
Many Sherbro assimilate as Krio (or Creole), as they share the Christian faith and Western names. According to Anaïs Ménard, the only Sierra Leonean ethnic group whose culture is similar (in terms of its embrace of Western culture) are Westernized members of the Sherbro people. Because some of the Sherbro interacted with Portuguese and English traders and intermarried with them in the mid-fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (producing Afro-European clans such as the
Notable Sherbro
- Julius Maada Bio, current president of Sierra Leone
- Abraham S Tucker , head therapist in Chicago, IL
- model and beauty pageant contestant who represented Sierra Leone at the Miss World 2018
- Thomas Corker – (died 1700) British-born Irish man and progenitor of the Sherbro Caulker clan
- Kpana Lewis (1830–1912), Sherbro chief and opponent of colonial rule
- Barnabas Root (born Fahma Yahny) (died 1877), clergyman and missionary to his nation
- John Karefa-Smart, politician and former leader of the United National People's Party (UNPP)
- John Akar, entertainer; he composed the music of Sierra Leone's national anthem
- Henry M. Joko-Smart, former Supreme Court Justice of Sierra Leone
- Patricia Kabbah, late First Lady of Sierra Leone and late wife of former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
- John Kizell, African-American immigrant to Sierra Leone born on Sherbro Island
- Paul Kpaka, footballer, Sierra Leone
- Christian Caulker, footballer, Sierra Leone
- Gibril Wilson[citation needed]
- John Trye
- Michael Tommy, footballer, Sierra Leone
- NFL.
- Seniora Doll, Sherbro princess during the early years of Sierra Leone
- Peter L. Tucker, Chief Executive for the Commission for Racial Equality (UK)
- Joseph Christian Humper, a bishop in the United Methodist Church
- Thomas Caulker, King of Bumpey
- Yeami Dunia
- Christian Moses
- Daniel Francis
- Kevin Wright
- George Davies
- Kwame Quee
- Steven Caulker
- Prince Barrie
- John Keister
- Rodney Michael
- Solomon Morris
Clans
- Sherbro Charley
- Sherbro Bullom
- Sherbro Caulkers
- Sherbro Clevelands
- Sherbro Hubbards
- Sherbro Macfoy
- Sherbro Rogers
- Sherbro Rutile
- Sherbro Tuckers
See also
- Thomas Corker, Chief Royal African agent in Sherbro country
- Seniora Doll, married Thomas Corker; their descendants are the Shenge and Bonthe Caulkers
Notes
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Ménard, Anaïs. 2015. Beyond Autochthony Discourses: Sherbro Identity and the (Re-)Construction of Social and National Cohesion in Sierra Leone. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
References
- Adam Jones (1983). History in Africa, Vol. 10, pp. 151–162.