The Kuranko, also called Koranko, Kolanko, Kooranko, Koronko, Kouranko, Kulanko, Kurako, Kuronko, Kuranké, or Karanko, are a Mandeka (People from Mande)...
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Kuranko is a Mande language spoken in Southwestern Africa by approximately 350,000 Kuranko people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Guinea it blends into...
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Ethnic groups in Sierra Leone (section Kuranko)
Other minority ethnic groups are the Kuranko, who are related to the Mandingo, and are largely Muslims. The Kuranko are believed to have begun arriving...
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province and the north Western province. Other languages include Kono, Kissi, Kuranko, Limba, Fula (Pular), Mandingo and Susu. Although English, as the official...
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Other minority ethnic groups are the Kuranko, who are related to the Mandingo, and are largely Muslims. The Kuranko are believed to have begun arriving...
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conquest by Samory Touré in the northeast solidified Islam among the Yalunka, Kuranko and Limba people. The 15th century marked the beginning of European interaction...
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remaining of the Yalunka went further into the mountains to settle among the Kuranko, Limba and Kissi people. In the midst some were raided by Almamy Samori...
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communication (The Other Shore). He has conducted fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone from 1969, among the Warlpiri of Australia's Northern Territory...
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By ethnicity Temne (35.4%), Mende (30.8%), Limba (8.8%), Kono (4.3%), Kuranko (4%), Fula (3.8%), Mandinka (2.8%), Loko (2%), Sherbro (1.9%), Creoles...
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Turay and popularized by his son-in-law Kisimi Kamara (c. 1890–1962), a Kuranko man in Sierra Leone. During the 1920s and 1930s, he ran a school in southern...
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