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Mende

Mende. By: Rey Bustamante . Housing. Traditional houses, usually with one story, were round or rectangular and were strongly built of wattle and mud daub with a palm thatch roof. A rectangular house usually has a veranda and two or . Clothing.

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Mende

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  1. Mende By: Rey Bustamante

  2. Housing • Traditional houses, usually with one story, were round or rectangular and were strongly built of wattle and mud daub with a palm thatch roof. A rectangular house usually has a veranda and two or

  3. Clothing • A group of women belonging to a cooperative make garas, a traditional tie-dyed cloth.

  4. Typical Food • Food in mende Life. For almost all Sierra Leoneans, rice is the staple food, consumed at virtually every meal. Other things are of course eaten—a wide variety of fruits, seafood, potatoes, cassav, etc.—but these are often considered to be just "snacks" and not "real fooda." Real food is rice, prepared numerous ways, and topped with a variety of sauces made from some combination of potato leaves, cassava leaves, hot peppers, peanuts, beans, okra, fish, beef, chicken, eggplant, onions, and tomatoes

  5. Ritual

  6. Religious Practices • Religious Practitioners. Besides Muslim and Christian holy leaders, there are a number of indigenous religious practitioners who are able to mediate with the spirit world. These include diviners, healers, men's and women's society elders, and witchcraft specialists.

  7. Roles Of Men/Women • Women and Men. The relative status of women is a bit paradoxical. On the surface, they seem to have low status—women technically live under the authority of the men they marry, have fewer legal rights, less formal education, and lower literacy rates. Yet in reality, women's relationship to men is more complementary than subordinate, due mostly to the considerable power and solidarity gained through the collective formed by the near universal membership in the women's Bundu or Sande societies

  8. Economy • Basic Economy. Subsistence agriculture comprises the mainstay of the rural Sierra Leonean economy. Cash crops such as coffee, cocoa, peanuts, and tobacco are also important, as are small-scale marketing and commodity trade. Sierra Leone is rich in diamonds, bauxite, and gold, but the national economy receives little of the benefits that could come from the official export of these items, due to mismanagement, widespread smuggling, and corruption.

  9. Recent Conflicts • For much of their history from the sixteenth until the early eighteenth century the Mende were aggressors against their neighbors: the Bullom-Sherbro, Vai, and Gola. Mende fighters participated in the wars and revolts of the colonial period, which ended in 1961 with the independence of Sierra Leone. The civil war in Liberia in early 1990 brought many Liberian Mende into Sierra Leone as refugees, and many of their settlements were in Mende territory. In the Sierra Leone civil war, after the overthrow of Ahmed TejanKabbah's government by Major Jonny Paul Koroma in May 1997, Mende involvement was pronounced

  10. Citation • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mende_people • http://www.everyculture.com/Sa-Th/Sierra-Leone.html

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