24 Facts About Temne people

Temne people, called Atemne, Temene, Temne people, Temine, Temeni, Thaimne, Themne, Thimni, Timene, Timne, Timmani, or Timni, are a West African ethnic group, They are predominantly found in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.

The Temne people constitute the largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone, at 35.

Temne people migrated from the Futa Jallon region of Guinea, who left their original settlements to escape Fula jihads in the 15th century, and migrated south before settling between the Kolente and Rokel River area of Sierra Leone.

Temne people are traditionally farmers, growing rice, cassava, millet and kola nut.

The Temne people were one of the ethnic groups that were victims of slave capture and trading across the sub-Saharan and across the Atlantic into European colonies.

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Temne people constitute one of the largest ethnic groups of Sierra Leone.

Temne people speak Temne, a language in the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo languages.

The Temne people, who refused to convert to Islam, were massively conquered from their region, which resulted in forced migration to northwest Sierra Leone.

Temne people started resettling in the northern part of the Pamoronkoh River .

Temne people described the rituals of chief's succession involving goat blood and rice flour, marriage dances, and a funeral involving the burial of the dead within one's house with gold ornaments.

Temne people provided Temne villages and labor to help the Nova Scotians who founded Freetown in 1792, both as a province of freedom to resettle former slaves liberated by activists, as well as a center of economic activity between the Europeans and the ethnic groups of Sierra Leone including the Temne people.

Temne people were a source of timber, groundnuts, palm kernels, palm oil, rubber and other goods which fed the trade between Sierra Leone and the Europe.

Ongoing wars between the various ethnic groups, along with the military action from the north by the Futa Jalon Almamate into the Temne people territories, threatened the Sierra Leone-related economic interests of the European colonial powers.

British colonial government was directly ruling the Temne people lands, enforced their anti-slavery laws, and instituted new taxes to finance their local administration in 1894.

Many Temne chiefs told the British that their people would not accept it.

The Temne people chief's military response against the colonial British in 1898, states Michael Crowder – a professor of History specializing on West Africa, was a protest not just against the hut tax but against a host of laws that had challenged the embedded social systems within the Temne people society.

Bai Bureh was partly a descendant of the Loko people, became one of the chiefs of Temne people, and led a key role in coordinating the military response to the British.

Temne people originally practiced a traditional polytheistic religion which included belief in a Supreme Being.

However, in the southeastern parts of Temne territory, according to Shaw's personal account, the conversion of Temne people have been semi-Islamic where people have syncretized Islam with traditional religious ideas rather than abandoning them outright.

The most significant presence and expansion of Christianity within the Temne people territories began in 1787, with the establishment of Freetown.

Christianity among the Temne people has had its largest adherents in the Freetown area and southeastern region of the Temne people region.

Temne people are traditionally farmers of staples such as rice and cassava, fishermen, and traders.

The Temne people clans have been numerous, each independent, divided as a chiefdom.

Some Temne people clans have been socially stratified with a stratum of slaves and castes.