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Sherbro people

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The Sherbro people are a native people of Sierra Leone, who speak the Sherbro language; they make up 3% of Sierra Leone's population or about 201,000. [1]

48 relations: American football, American Revolutionary War, B. J. Tucker, Barnabas Root, Bonthe District, Christian Caulker, Cornerback, Desmond Luke, Ethnic groups in Europe, Fisherman, Freetown, Gola people, Henry M. Joko-Smart, History of slavery, Homeland, Indigenous peoples, James Corker, John Akar, John Karefa-Smart, John Kizell, Joseph Christian Humper, Kpana Lewis, Krio language, Limba people (Sierra Leone), Mende people, Merchant, Michael Tommy (footballer), National Football League, Nova Scotia, Patricia Kabbah, Paul Kpaka, Peter L. Tucker, Portuguese people, San Francisco 49ers, Seniora Doll, Sherbro Island, Sherbro language, Sherbro Tuckers, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Creole people, Sierra Leonean English, Temne language, Temne people, Thomas Caulker, Thomas Corker, United National People's Party, Western Area, Western culture.

American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America. After 1765, growing philosophical and political differences strained the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies. Patriot protests against taxation without representation followed the Stamp Act and escalated into boycotts, which culminated in 1773 with the Sons of Liberty destroying a shipment of tea in Boston Harbor. Britain responded by closing Boston Harbor and passing a series of punitive measures against Massachusetts Bay Colony. Massachusetts colonists responded with the Suffolk Resolves, and they established a shadow government which wrested control of the countryside from the Crown. Twelve colonies formed a Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance, establishing committees and conventions that effectively seized power. British attempts to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord, Massachusetts in April 1775 led to open combat. Militia forces then besieged Boston, forcing a British evacuation in March 1776, and Congress appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Concurrently, an American attempt to invade Quebec and raise rebellion against the British failed decisively. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence, issuing its declaration on July 4. Sir William Howe launched a British counter-offensive, capturing New York City and leaving American morale at a low ebb. However, victories at Trenton and Princeton restored American confidence. In 1777, the British launched an invasion from Quebec under John Burgoyne, intending to isolate the New England Colonies. Instead of assisting this effort, Howe took his army on a separate campaign against Philadelphia, and Burgoyne was decisively defeated at Saratoga in October 1777. Burgoyne's defeat had drastic consequences. France formally allied with the Americans and entered the war in 1778, and Spain joined the war the following year as an ally of France but not as an ally of the United States. In 1780, the Kingdom of Mysore attacked the British in India, and tensions between Great Britain and the Netherlands erupted into open war. In North America, the British mounted a "Southern strategy" led by Charles Cornwallis which hinged upon a Loyalist uprising, but too few came forward. Cornwallis suffered reversals at King's Mountain and Cowpens. He retreated to Yorktown, Virginia, intending an evacuation, but a decisive French naval victory deprived him of an escape. A Franco-American army led by the Comte de Rochambeau and Washington then besieged Cornwallis' army and, with no sign of relief, he surrendered in October 1781. Whigs in Britain had long opposed the pro-war Tories in Parliament, and the surrender gave them the upper hand. In early 1782, Parliament voted to end all offensive operations in North America, but the war continued in Europe and India. Britain remained under siege in Gibraltar but scored a major victory over the French navy. On September 3, 1783, the belligerent parties signed the Treaty of Paris in which Great Britain agreed to recognize the sovereignty of the United States and formally end the war. French involvement had proven decisive,Brooks, Richard (editor). Atlas of World Military History. HarperCollins, 2000, p. 101 "Washington's success in keeping the army together deprived the British of victory, but French intervention won the war." but France made few gains and incurred crippling debts. Spain made some minor territorial gains but failed in its primary aim of recovering Gibraltar. The Dutch were defeated on all counts and were compelled to cede territory to Great Britain. In India, the war against Mysore and its allies concluded in 1784 without any territorial changes.

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B. J. Tucker

Baigeh Joe Tucker (born October 12, 1980) is a former professional football cornerback in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Francisco 49ers.

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Barnabas Root

Barnabas Root, born Fahma Yahny, (Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone, West Africa) was the grandson of an American-born slave who had moved to Africa through the efforts of the American Colonization Society.

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Bonthe District

Bonthe District is a district comprises several islands and mainland of the Atlantic Ocean in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.

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Christian Caulker

Christian Caulker (born 25 December 1988 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who is currently suspended indefinitely over allegations of match-fixing.

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Cornerback

A cornerback (CB), also referred to as a corner, is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in American and Canadian football.

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Desmond Luke

Sir Desmond Edgar Fashole Luke (born 6 October 1935)Lans Gberie,, The Patriotic Vanguard (Sierra Leone), 13 January 2011.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

The Indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe.

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Fisherman

A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Gola people

The Gola or Gula are a tribal people living in western/northwestern Liberia and Eastern Sierra Leone.

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Henry M. Joko-Smart

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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Homeland

A homeland (country of origin and native land) is the concept of the place (cultural geography) with which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association – the country in which a particular national identity began.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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James Corker

James Corker or James Cleveland (born 1753 or 1754, died March 24, 1791) was a man of English descent who took part in clan fighting in precolonial Sierra Leone.

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John Akar

John Joseph Akar (1927–1975) was a Sierra Leonean entertainer, writer, and diplomat.

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John Karefa-Smart

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John Kizell

John Kizell was a first-generation African American of Sherbro origin and a key figure in the early history of Sierra Leone.

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Joseph Christian Humper

Joseph Christian Humper (born 2 June 1946, in Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone) is a Bishop in the United Methodist Church.

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Kpana Lewis

Kpana Lewis (April 19, 1830 – May 10, 1912) was a Sherbro chief from Sierra Leone and an opponent of colonial rule of the British.

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Krio language

Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone.

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Limba people (Sierra Leone)

The Limba people are a major ethnic group in the Sierra Leone.

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Mende people

The Mende people (also spelled Mendi) are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, have roughly the same population.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.

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Michael Tommy (footballer)

Michael Tommy (born June 30, 1979 in Freetown) is a Sierra Leonean international football goalkeeper.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.

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Patricia Kabbah

Patricia Kabbah (March 17, 1933 – May 8, 1998) was a Sierra Leonean lawyer who served as First Lady of Sierra Leone from 1996-1998.

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Paul Kpaka

Paul Kpaka (born 7 August 1981 in Kenema) is a former Sierre Leonean footballer.

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Peter L. Tucker

Peter Louis Tucker (1927-2017), was a notable Sherbro civil servant and he was once the Chief Executive for the Commission for Racial Equality in the United Kingdom a position he had from 1976 to 1982.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Seniora Doll

Seniora Doll or Senora Doll was a Sherbro princess or 'Duchess' of the Ya Kumba ruling house of the Yawri Bay Area between the Sierra Leone peninsula and the Sherbro estuary.

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Sherbro Island

Sherbro Island is in the Atlantic Ocean, located in Bonthe District off the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.

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Sherbro language

The Sherbro language (also known as Southern Bullom, Shiba, Amampa, Mampa, and Mampwa) is an endangered language of Sierra Leone.

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Sherbro Tuckers

The Tuckers of Sherbro are an Afro-European clan from the Southern region of Sierra Leone.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.

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Sierra Leone Creole people

The Sierra Leone Creole people (or Krio people) is an ethnic group in Sierra Leone.

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Sierra Leonean English

Sierra Leonean English is the dialect of English spoken by Sierra Leoneans.

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Temne language

Temne (also Themne, Timne) is a language of the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family, spoken in Sierra Leone by about 2 million first-language speakers.

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Temne people

The Temne people, also called Time, Temen, Timni or Timmanee people, are an African ethnic group.

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Thomas Caulker

Thomas Canry Caulker (1846–1859) was the Sherbro-born son of the King of Bompey (an African polity established in 1820 that became incorporated into Sierra Leone in 1888 and is today part of the Moyamba District).

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Thomas Corker

Thomas Corker (1669 - 10 September 1700, Falmouth, Cornwall) was a prominent English agent for the Royal African Company and worked in the Sherbro, Sierra Leone.

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United National People's Party

The United National People's Party is a political party in Sierra Leone.

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Western Area

The Western Area or Freetown Peninsula (formerly the Colony of Sierra Leone) is one of four principal divisions of Sierra Leone.

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Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

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Sherbro Culture, Sherbro History.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbro_people

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