Krio (people)

Main distribution area of ​​the Krio in the west of Sierra Leone

The Krio , rarely also Sierra Leone Creoles ( English Sierra Leone Creole people ), are an ethnic group in the West African Sierra Leone . Make (as of 2015) with just under 95,000 people, although only 1.2 percent of the total population, their language, however, the Krio , is native of 1.265 million people and major transport language of Sierra Leone.

Most of them are of Christian faith .

origin

The Krio are direct descendants of liberated Afro-American slaves who settled on the Freetown Peninsula between 1787 and 1885 around the capital Freetown , which was later founded by the liberated . Like the Ameriko-Liberians in neighboring Liberia , the Krio have not only black African but also European blood.

Known Krio

• Eunice Barber (* 1974), former French athlete
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), English composer
• Ogunlade Davidson (born 1949), climatologist
• Horace Dove-Edwin (* 1967), former athlete
• Fannyann Eddy (1974-2004), human rights activist
• Ryan Giggs (* 1973), former Welsh football player
• Albert Jarrett (born 1984), footballer
• Thomas Peters (1738–1792), actual founder of Freetown
• Liam Rosenior (* 1984), former English footballer
• Rodney Strasser (born 1990), footballer
• Valentine Strasser (* 1967), former head of state of Sierra Leone

See also

• Maroons
• Atlantic creoles

Web links

• Information page about the Krio (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census national analytical report. Statistics Sierra Leone, October 2017, p. 89ff.
2. ↑ Shana Poplack: African English in the diaspora . Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 0-631-21266-3 , p. 41.
3. ↑ James W Walker: Chapter Five: Foundation of Sierra Leone . In: The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1992, ISBN 978-0-8020-7402-7 , pp. 94-114.
4. ↑ N Madrilejo, H Lombard, JB Torres: Origins of marronage: Mitochondrial lineages of Jamaica's Accompong Town Maroons . In: Am. J. Hum. Biol . 27, 2015, pp. 432-7. doi : 10.1002 / ajhb.22656 . PMID 25392952 .