Masakpaidu

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Masakpaidu
National Monument in Sierra Leone Flag of Sierra Leone.svg
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Monument type monument
location Kono
Geographic coordinates : 8 ° 50 '49.5 "  N , 11 ° 1' 9.4"  W Coordinates: 8 ° 50 '49.5 "  N , 11 ° 1' 9.4"  W.
Masakpaidu (Sierra Leone)
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Emergence
Recognized
by the Monuments and Relics Commission 		1949
Sponsorship ± 1893
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Masakpaidu (also Massabendu ) was a settlement in Sierra Leone . The remains of the settlement are in the Kono district in the Chiefdom Nimmi Yema.

Masakpaidu was built on a flat elevation in the confluence of the Bafi and Bagwa rivers, which merge there to form the Sewa River . As an additional protection, the settlement had a fortification that was built around 1800. The fortification consisted of an enclosure made of about 3.5 meter long pegs made of kapok wood , which was surrounded by an approximately 300 meter long trench. The palisade was provided with two entrances, to which a pile bridge led over the moat, which could be pulled in at night or in the event of an attack. Masakpaidu was abandoned around 1893 when troops under Almamy Suluku took the area.

Parts of the palisade and the moat still exist today. The remains were placed under protection as a national monument of the State of Sierra Leone in 1949 .

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