Kono (people)
The Kono are a people in Sierra Leone and (as of 2015) make up almost 365,000 people, 5.2 percent of the country's population.
Their home is traditionally in the district of the same name in the east of Sierra Leone in the eastern province . The Kono are farmers and miners , especially in the local diamond mountain plants . You speak Kono .
The Kono are said to have descended from immigrants from Mali - Guinea and moved to what is now the Kono district in Sierra Leone as hunters in the 16th century . It is unclear which ethnic groups have been there since at least the 2nd millennium BC. BC , what archaeological finds indicate. After attacks by the Mende , they are said to have moved further north as farmers before returning to the Kono district after the Mende moved further south.
Known Kono
- Samuel Sam-Sumana (* 1962), former Vice President of Sierra Leone
- Sahr Senesie (* 1985), well-known footballer in Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census national analytical report. Statistics Sierra Leone, October 2017, p. 89ff.
- ↑ CS Coon: Excavations at Yengema Cave , In: Expedition Magazine , Issue 11, September 1, 1968. ( available online )