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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
