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Sierra Leone

Region:	Africa
Capital:
Population:	5,883,889
Area (sq km):	71,740
FIPS Country Code:	SL
ISO Country Code:	SL
GRN Office:	Gospel Recordings Sierra Leone

About Sierra Leone

Freetown, the capital, is a port city and the commercial hub.
Settled by freed and rescued slaves in 18th century, it was
made the seat of government for the British territories in
West Africa in 1821 and became the capital in 1961.

People groups:

West Atlantic - 45.3%
Mande - 43.8%
Kwa - 1.3%
Krio 8.6%
Other 1%

Religions: (Freedom of religion.)

Muslim - 70%
Traditional ethnic - 18.24%
Christian - 11%
Hindu - 0.04%

History

Sierra Leone was founded as a home for freed slaves in 1797. It was the first West African country to be evangelised. The first Protestant Church was started among freed slaves in Freetown, yet after over 200 years of effort, under 12% of the country claims to be Christian. (From 'Operation World')

The country emerged from a decade of civil war in 2002 with the help of Britain and a large United Nations peace keeping mission. It now faces the huge challenge of reconstruction.

Map of Sierra Leone

Languages and dialects spoken in Sierra Leone

This list shows the primary names of the languages and dialects.

This list shows all known languages and dialects whether or not any materials are available. (Icons indicate those with recordings available.)

Found 99 language names.

Bassa: Central Bassa Recorded language

Bassa: Gba Sor

Bassa: Gbor Recorded language

Bassa: Hwengbarkon Recorded language

Bassa: Mabahn

Bassa: Rivercess Bassa

English: Africa Recorded language

Fuuta Jalon Recorded language

Fuuta Jalon: Kebu Fula

Fuuta Jalon: Krio Fula

Gissi Recorded language

Gola Recorded language

Gola: Senje Recorded language

Gola: Tee

Gola: Toldil

Greek Recorded language

Kissi, Kissidougou Recorded language

Kissi, Northern: Kama

Kissi, Northern: Liaro

Kissi, Northern: Teng

Kissi, Northern: Tung

Kissi: Sierra Leone Recorded language

Kono: Central Kono

Kono: Northern Kono

Kono: Sierra Leone Recorded language

Koranko Recorded language

Kpelle, Guinea Recorded language

Krim Recorded language

Krio Recorded language

Krio: Aku

Kroo Recorded language

Kuranko: Sengbeh Recorded language

Landorgoh Loko Recorded language

Lele Recorded language

Limba, East

Limba, East: Northern Recorded language

Limba, East: Southern Recorded language

Limba, West-Central Recorded language

Limba, West-central: Central

Limba: Western Recorded language

Loko Recorded language

Mandinka Recorded language

Maninka, Kankan Recorded language

Mende Recorded language

Sherbro Recorded language

Sherbro: Ndema Sherbro

Sherbro: Peninsula Sherbro

Sherbro: Shenge Recorded language

Sherbro: Sitia Sherbro

Sosso Recorded language

Sousou: Sierra Leone Recorded language

Temne Recorded language

Themne: Western Temne

Themne: Yoni

Toma Recorded language

Vai Recorded language

Yalanka Recorded language

Yalunka: Firia

Yalunka: Musaia

Yalunka: Sulima Recorded language

Yoruba Recorded language

More information

Get more details about this country from The World Factbook.

Find out about people groups in this country from Joshua Project.

Find other materials available for languages in this country from the Minority Language Resource File.

See also the full country list and alphabetical language list.

Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.

News about Sierra Leone

People saved and Churches planted: One 95 year old man heard the Gospel and believed. He told the team, 'I am 1 day old in Christ!' and begged them to take the message to his own village where the people needed to hear about Jesus.

God at work in Sierra Leone: How would you feel if 400 people came to your open air meeting and 15 of them indicated that they wanted to follow Christ? Stories like this make heaven rejoice.

Recording Trip - African Style: The Sierra Leone team try out their new skills and new equipment.

Recording in Africa - It's no joke...: Breakdown in rebel territory... car accident... stolen luggage... arrest and imprisonment... amazing release... and mission accomplished!

Kono Report: To us Kono is an unreached area. Even the muslims who are there find it difficult to pray. There are no houses in Kono. The team slept on bare floor. All the houses in this place were burnt by the rebels.

Outreach in Sierra Leone: The second night we showed the same Jesus Film with one Old Testament story on Joshua. We had over 11,000 people watching the film again. The 197 counselors and 60 prayer warriors could not count all the people that accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Jesus makes a difference in Sierra Leone: Exciting results of a recent outreach in Sierra Leone.

The War and the Gospel: Every time I think of what we went through these past years, I feel a cold chill running down my spine.

Gospel Recordings Sierra Leone: General information, articles, news and contact details about GRN Sierra Leone.

Reports from Sierra Leone: With many of the GR SL staff exiled in Guinea, the leader writes a first-hand account of his experience.

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