Oku people (Sierra Leone)
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The Oku people or the Aku Marabout or Aku Mohammedans are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, primarily the descendants of marabout, liberated Yoruba people who were released from slave sh
Mohammed Shitta Bey
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Sierra Leone Creole people
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The Sierra Leone Creole people are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Liberated African slaves who settled i
Oku people (Sierra Leone)
…have intermarried since then with ethnic groups in Sierra Leone and the Gambia such as the Mandingo, Temne, Mende, and in some cases with the ethnic Sierra Leone Creole people. The Creole are primarily descendants of African-American former slaves, as well as some from Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and slaves liberated from…
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Freetown in 1803
Captain Paul Cuffee transported 38 African Americans to Freetown in 1815
1835 illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone.