The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic group at 35.5% of...

It is spoken by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. Mende is a tonal language belonging...

Mende may refer to: Mende people Mende language Seim language, also called Mende language Mende syllabary (Kikakui) Mende (surname) Mende Nazer (born...

neighbor the Mende people, and most Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone speak the Mende language and they have integrated large amounts of the Mende tradition...

Madam Yoko or Mammy Yoko (ca. 1849–1906) was a leader of the Mende people in Sierra Leone. Combining advantageous lineage, shrewd marriage choices and...

sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people[citation needed] who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave...

slightly bigger than the Mende people at 31.2%. They speak Temne, a Mel branch of the Niger–Congo languages. The Temne people migrated from the Futa Jallon...

The Kpelle people (also known as the Guerze, Kpwesi, Kpessi, Sprd, Mpessi, Berlu, Gbelle, Bere, Gizima, or Buni) are the largest ethnic group in Liberia...

The Sande / Bondo sub-culture is believed to be originated from the Mende people.: 56  The practice Sande (or Bondo), which consist of rituals involving...

330,000 in the two countries in 2010. They are closely related to the Mende people. The Loma speak a language in the Southwestern branch of the Mande languages...