Culture of Liberia

Tribes of Liberia

• Early tribes:
  • Gola (see Charles_Taylor)
  • Kumba tribes immigrating around 6000 B.C.:
    • Kpelle
    • Loma
    • Gbande (Gbandi)
    • Mende
    • Mano
• Tribes immigrating from the Republic of Ivory Coast in the 1500s:
  • Kru (Tajuasohn)
  • Bassa
  • Dei
  • Mamba
  • Grebo
• Muslim tribes immigrating from Sudan from the 1500s through 1600s:
  • Vai
  • Mandingo (see LURD)
• Imigrants from the 1800s:
  • Americo-Liberians: Freed slaves and descendants of freed slaves from the US the Caribbean
  • Congo people from the Congo River Basin who were captured for the slave trade but sent to Liberia when slavery was abolished without ever being exposed to non-African cultures.

• Gio
• Krahn (see Samuel Doe, and MODEL)
• Kissi
• Bella

Arts

• Music of Liberia