• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Koroma is a common surname among the Mende, Temne, Limba,Kuranko people (sierra leone)/Kuranko and Loko people of Sierra Leone. The word Koroma originates...
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    of Koinadugu District, the inhabitants of Kabala are largely from the Kuranko, Mandingo, Yalunka, Limba and Fula ethnic groups. As with most parts of...
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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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