Krio

Living and working on the beach with a community of fishermen for 6 months, I am now conversational in Krio, I learned to appreciate the culture, I learned about sustainable community living and pushing canoes in the ocean, I learned to make a bonfire and build an environmental home, pump water from a well and make compost.

Filippo Bozotti: Tribewanted Sierra Leone: 6 Months Later Filippo Bozotti 2011

Living and working on the beach with a community of fishermen for 6 months, I am now conversational in Krio, I learned to appreciate the culture, I learned about sustainable community living and pushing canoes in the ocean, I learned to make a bonfire and build an environmental home, pump water from a well and make compost.

Filippo Bozotti: Tribewanted Sierra Leone: 6 Months Later Filippo Bozotti 2011

Living and working on the beach with a community of fishermen for 6 months, I am now conversational in Krio, I learned to appreciate the culture, I learned about sustainable community living and pushing canoes in the ocean, I learned to make a bonfire and build an environmental home, pump water from a well and make compost.

Filippo Bozotti: Tribewanted Sierra Leone: 6 Months Later Filippo Bozotti 2011

Living and working on the beach with a community of fishermen for 6 months, I am now conversational in Krio, I learned to appreciate the culture, I learned about sustainable community living and pushing canoes in the ocean, I learned to make a bonfire and build an environmental home, pump water from a well and make compost.

Filippo Bozotti: Tribewanted Sierra Leone: 6 Months Later Filippo Bozotti 2011

T.I.A. (this is Africa), or as they say in Krio, D.N.S. (Dis Na Salone).

Filippo Bozotti: Tribewanted Sierra Leone: Live from John Obey beach 2010

Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)

Sierra Leone 2009

In Krio, the phrase "smohl, smohl" describes small things or small progress; it can be used to mean little by little.

Bishop from Sierra Leone to speak at King of Glory Lutheran in Dallas | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians

Ethnic groups 2008

Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians

Sierra Leone 2008

Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)

Sierra Leone 2008