Sierra Leone "Identity" Frame

Wall Art featuring elements of Sierra Leonean Identity, including some of its ethnic groups, languages, and names that illustrates Sierra Leonean Heritage. In earlier times, the area witnessed large migrations of the Limba, Sherbro, Mande, Fulani, and other ancient ethnic groups in West Africa. In 1792, before the Haitian Revolution and Liberia, the first successful settlement of ex-enslaved black Americans in Africa was established in Sierra Leone, with descendants still there today.  From 1800 to 1850s, over 500 Jamaican Maroons from the mountains of Jamaica and others from Barbados, Trinidad, and other Caribbean Islands settled in Sierra Leone.    From 1808 to the 1860s, over 60,000 West and Central Africans liberated on slave ships across the Atlantic were resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone.  It isn't uncommon to find a Sierra Leonean today with Yoruba, Fante, Wolof, Igbo, Hausa or Congolese ancestry among others.  In the 1840s a German Linguist conducting studies in Sierra Leone,