History of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone first became inhabited by indigenous African peoples at least 2,500 years ago.The Limba were the first tribe known to inhabit Sierra Leone. The dense tropical rainforest partially isolated the region from other West African cultures, and it became a refuge for peoples escaping violence and jihads. Sierra Leone was named by Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra, who mapped the region in 1462. The Freetown estuary provided a good natural harbour for ships to shelter and replenish drinking water, and gained more international attention as coastal and trans-Atlantic trade supplanted trans-Saharan trade.
In the mid-16th century, the Mane people invaded, subjugated nearly all of the indigenous coastal peoples, and militarised Sierra Leone. The Mane soon blended with the local populations and the various chiefdoms and kingdoms remained in a continual state of conflict, with many captives sold to European slave-traders. The Atlantic slave trade had a significant impact on Sierra Leone, as this trade flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries, and later as a centre of anti-slavery efforts when the trade was abolished in 1807. British abolitionists had organised a colony for Black Loyalists at Freetown, and this became the capital of British West Africa. A naval squadron was based there to intercept slave ships, and the colony quickly grew as liberated Africans were released, joined by West Indian and African soldiers who had fought for Britain in the Napoleonic Wars. The descendants of the black settlers were collectively referred to as the Creoles or Krios.

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  • @nancydahn8898
    @nancydahn889810 ай бұрын

    As I listened, I just feel more and more sorrows for my people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, may The Almighty see us all through in Jesus name amen and amen!!!

  • @mwanziesaffa4167

    @mwanziesaffa4167

    9 ай бұрын

    Jesus is a European god of an oppressor.

  • @boogsybrooks

    @boogsybrooks

    7 ай бұрын

    You keep praying to the god of your enemies when youre ancestors never did and you wonder why nothing changes for the better.

  • @mlola3424

    @mlola3424

    4 ай бұрын

    Who your praying to is the very reason sierra will never better.

  • @Uchube77

    @Uchube77

    3 ай бұрын

    @@boogsybrookswow so deep but so true. If god/ light gave us life, then it would make sense to live. Religion ruins life. When we go home after here we can be religious 😂makes sense though frfr

  • @williettakojo-woode9706
    @williettakojo-woode97062 ай бұрын

    Thank you For the history

  • @EmmanuelOjex
    @EmmanuelOjex3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the history

  • @nancydahn8898
    @nancydahn889810 ай бұрын

    Black people of west African have suffered at the hands of outsiders or at the hands of their own people. It seems as though we were created to suffered all of our lives.

  • @JK-tr2mt
    @JK-tr2mt Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this condensed summary. I have some Mende ancestry so this was quite useful information.

  • @jlf7362

    @jlf7362

    3 ай бұрын

    My maternal ancestry is Mende

  • @nafisatgem3559
    @nafisatgem35592 жыл бұрын

    I am so honoured to learn a bit about my heritage and also just want to say that my half sister is actually the great great granddaughter of Bai_Bureh 😀

  • @musakpaka

    @musakpaka

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @nafisatgem3559

    @nafisatgem3559

    Жыл бұрын

    @@musakpaka hello

  • @davidagarber3200
    @davidagarber32002 жыл бұрын

    It is so nice to hear about our history. Thanks👍🏾👍🏾🙏🙏

  • @useru7263
    @useru72638 ай бұрын

    Woo thanks guys for giving me the history of my beloved country mama salone l have learned a lot from this ❤

  • @mariecharm2491
    @mariecharm24913 жыл бұрын

    Thanks 🙏

  • @speakertreatz
    @speakertreatz2 жыл бұрын

    some lines nicked straight out of Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone. Or maybe he nicked them some somewhere else first?

  • @sumailasesay5977
    @sumailasesay59772 жыл бұрын

    Thanks.

  • @hannahconteh808
    @hannahconteh808 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @Adapt_Counselling353
    @Adapt_Counselling353 Жыл бұрын

    Can you share the Sources for your presentation please? What proofs can you offer that there was violence between the Limba & Manes( Mendaes?) or that the Mane peoples "militarised" the people and what inducements did they use to persuade the young men to leave their farms and nets and engage in kidnapping others for payments from European Invaders? I would be grateful for any references pointing to quality Histories, Archeological, Folklore and other material and documentation. Further what role have the Lebanese and other Arab peoples played in shaping the region since the 15th or 16th Century? Thanks

  • @jeanettesdaughter

    @jeanettesdaughter

    7 ай бұрын

    Sounds like you ve got a lot of work to do. This author can’t do that for you but there is the library. And visit an Africana Studies course at a university. The facts are accessible to anyone who can read.

  • @saadahmed153
    @saadahmed1532 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the history to remember how storytelling 🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱💖💞💯💯🥰🥰😘

  • @JosephMassaquoi-gc1ox
    @JosephMassaquoi-gc1ox3 ай бұрын

    The light of God is about to shine over Sierra Leone, Jesus has decided to visit us this end time. All glory to Him!

  • @ianjaeger4178
    @ianjaeger41782 ай бұрын

    i moved here peninsula beachside acres 2019 nov livin the dream . vancouver white dude now Mende fine wife . love it here so peacefull quiet freedom

  • @boogsybrooks
    @boogsybrooks7 ай бұрын

    Whats with the thumbnail? You couldnt have chosen something more dignified?

  • @natashasherman4458
    @natashasherman44584 ай бұрын

    my late grandfather was from Sierra Leone and he originated from the Mende tribe

  • @kadiekabba7265
    @kadiekabba7265 Жыл бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @richardkanu2230
    @richardkanu22302 жыл бұрын

    love salone

  • @funginho407
    @funginho4072 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure there is great history in this but no way I’m listening to 1hour plus to Siri. Can you please contact me so I can do it properly

  • @arifatupayne2544
    @arifatupayne2544 Жыл бұрын

    I am a proud Mende man

  • @tonewopn8275
    @tonewopn8275 Жыл бұрын

    It’s practically impossible to trace my ancestry smh

  • @sulaymankamara797
    @sulaymankamara7972 жыл бұрын

    Wrong narrative

  • @edwardjohn6694
    @edwardjohn6694 Жыл бұрын

    The Limba-niyo were the first to settle there. I will inflict serious pain on those Limba-niyo in Sierra Leone if I was to ever go there. But I am not going there.

  • @fatmataturay5862

    @fatmataturay5862

    Жыл бұрын

    Why would you even think of causing trouble to a land of people whom have clearly endured so much?

  • @marianerhayuiamadin3966
    @marianerhayuiamadin3966 Жыл бұрын

    Such a beautiful and Interesting History of our Beautiful Country Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 🌹🇸🇱

  • @abubangura2458
    @abubangura2458 Жыл бұрын

    Why the coquetion people insiste that our history is all about slavery, who wrot this history the same slaves máster

  • @Themagicinme
    @Themagicinme6 ай бұрын

    🎉

  • @alieconteh1826
    @alieconteh1826 Жыл бұрын

    Yes thank you very much for REMINDING the REST of THEM WE the LIMBAs are the ORIGINAL HEBREWS we the only tribe can say a Hebrew word is YE in the old testament and the other one is selah Me I am a SELAH limba by tribe. Check does two words in the bible ye means you. And the limba people say ye means you. Who ever come across my understanding will spread out from ALIE ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

  • @alieconteh1826

    @alieconteh1826

    Жыл бұрын

    I am just continuing a little bit from where I left the LIMBAs migration from ISRAEL I have maps of the Journey ALIE ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

  • @fatimanyamah7563

    @fatimanyamah7563

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alieconteh1826 hahaha

  • @shabirbhatti11147
    @shabirbhatti11147 Жыл бұрын

    Violence and Jihad? Was that a mistake? If I remember correctly the concept of Jihad did not exist 2500 years ago. lol Hopefully it was an autocorrect mistake.

  • @gravitypoo8765

    @gravitypoo8765

    Жыл бұрын

    No it did. That time there were Islamic groups committing jihad around the west northern region of Africa. That’s why a lot of west Africa is still Islamic today. Either you converted and basically treated like a slave or be put to the sword

  • @johniga21
    @johniga21 Жыл бұрын

    Inhabitants!!!!!

  • @johncolefreeman1692
    @johncolefreeman16922 ай бұрын

    PEDRO DE SANTA Portuguese explorer discoverd Sierra Leone. and named it Lion Mountain.

  • @superdflye
    @superdflye Жыл бұрын

    Take this down.

  • @vespa9566
    @vespa95662 жыл бұрын

    Is this the new BLM version of historic slavery? Rattle off a bunch of dates from abolishing the practice in 1807, within the same sentence “Sierra Leone abolishing slavery 1928” …. Great comedy

  • @mariamajeanne138

    @mariamajeanne138

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the narration

  • @Tootisepop

    @Tootisepop

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bruh what

  • @socillizt4life

    @socillizt4life

    Жыл бұрын

    What??Come again,what do you think’s inaccurate exactly?Have you ever even been to Sierra Leone or at least studied its history & cultures?I’m taking a wild guess that would be a big N O?🤷‍♂️

  • @Grug-Jack

    @Grug-Jack

    Жыл бұрын

    they mean domestic slavery was abolished in 1928

  • @vespa9566

    @vespa9566

    Жыл бұрын

    @@socillizt4life go to any part of Africa besides SA absolutely not, that would be insane! But study plenty and Sierra Leone & Liberia. Not even the local population wanted their free slave back. Since colonization they rely on charity, from outside sources till today.

  • @titusjomo7114
    @titusjomo7114 Жыл бұрын

    The name Sierra Leone had long been there,it’s was written on a stone so this thing of a Portuguese sailor sailed into Sierra Leone and then given the name it’s was all lies and lied

  • @Grug-Jack

    @Grug-Jack

    Жыл бұрын

    It was literally named by the Portuguese. Your source is "a stone" and my source is everything on the internet.

  • @abubakarkoroma5815

    @abubakarkoroma5815

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Grug-Jack it all liés,rethink again,my country and people where their 🙏

  • @Grug-Jack

    @Grug-Jack

    Жыл бұрын

    @@abubakarkoroma5815 When you make an argument, you have to back it up with sources. If you don't, and your opponent does have sources, you sound like an idiot, as you do now.

  • @winstonscott4195

    @winstonscott4195

    3 ай бұрын

    Sierra Leone is Portuguese for Lion Mountain.

  • @xavisanchez7522

    @xavisanchez7522

    Ай бұрын

    @@Grug-Jack you have to add “ portuguese” in this way because it is unclear which “ portuguese” and which language were used

  • @yankubjabbi1883
    @yankubjabbi18838 ай бұрын

    Faraba banta is banana Island i know it 10 miles away from my town Brikama Town kombo sillah bojang kunda

  • @yankubjabbi1883
    @yankubjabbi18838 ай бұрын

    Mande minding warriors brave and organised of Sierra leone mende fedders and fish and chickens

  • @onikehcole2725
    @onikehcole2725 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you