Akintola Wyse : creator of the Krio myth / Christopher Fyfe -- E-thinking the demographic make-up of Krio society / Gibril Cole -- The Sierra Leone Carrier Corps and Krio responses to recruitment in ...

Freetown — After decades of work, the first translation of the Bible into the Sierra Leone dialect of Krio was published less than a year ago. The translation is gaining widespread use, and is helping ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of ...

The Aku or Krio are a minority ethnic group of The Gambia with roots among Sierra Leone Creole people. In Sierra Leone, Muslim Creoles are known as Akus (Aku Muslims) or Marabouts, while in The Gambia ...

The Krio people of Sierra Leone are partly descended from former enslaved Africans who fought for the British in the American War of Independence, in exchange for promises of freedom. After the ...