22 Facts About Mende people

The Mende people are predominantly found in the Southern Province and the Eastern Province, while the Temne are found primarily in the Northern Province and the Western Area, including the capital city of Freetown.

Some major cities with significant Mende people populations include Bo, Kenema, Kailahun, and Moyamba.

The Mende people believe that all humanistic and scientific power is passed down through the secret societies.

Mende people language is widely spoken in Liberia more so in areas once considered part of Liberia.

Mende people names are common in Liberia including towns that share names on both side of the border; for example, Guma Mende people is popular section in Loffa, Liberia and those living along the borders claim dual citizenship.

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Mende people language is taught in Sierra Leone schools and the alphabet is closely related to the English alphabet.

Mende people speak the Mende people language among themselves, but their language is spoken as a regional lingua franca by members of smaller Sierra Leonean ethnic groups that inhabit the same part of the country.

The Mende are known to typically support the Sierra Leone People's Party, while the Temnes and Limbas are associated with the All People's Congress party .

The Mende people are generally known as growers of rice and several other crops, practicing crop rotation to protect soil productivity.

Traditionally, Mende people farming has been carried out by labour groups organised on a local basis and moving from farm to farm .

Mende people have always had a remarkable enthusiasm for secret societies.

The masks associated with the fraternal and sorority associations of the Marka and the Mende people are probably the best-known and finely crafted in the region.

The Mende people produce beautifully woven fabrics which are popular throughout western Africa, and gold and silver necklaces, bracelets, armlets, and earrings.

Features of a Mende people mask convey Mende people ideals of female morality and physical beauty.

Mende people's is there only as a reminder of the powerful medicine which has been summoned by the Sande session.

Objects and Mende people who are marked with Hojo are under Sande protection and control.

The Mende people find unarranged "wild" hair immoral and associate individuals who possess this trait with wild behavior.

Mende people consider a beautiful neck to be one with rings as it shows adolescent girls becoming ready for childbearing by the increase in body fat.

Tuchscherer learned that while Kisimi took the lead in spreading the script throughout the Mende people region, the actual inventor of the Ki-ka-ku script was a local tailor who developed it in order to keep an accurate record of his customers' names and measurements.

Mende people is the son of former prime minister Albert Margai and the nephew of Milton Margai; and former Sierra Leone's minister of finance John Oponjo Benjamin, who is currently the National Leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party .

Mende people are a well-documented example of a non-western, pre-industrial society in which, at least historically, women took more political leadership positions relative to men.

Mende people's was formally recognized by the British as a Paramount Chief in 1894, ruling an area that was eventually divided into fourteen chiefdoms.