Mende in a sentence

Nine days later, they arrived in Farmington where abolitionists provided housing, schooling and the fundraising necessary for the Mende passage back to their homeland.

The groups were the Nama (Khoe-San from South Africa); the Mende (from Sierra Leone); the Gumuz (recent descendants of a hunter-gatherer group from Ethiopia); and the Amhara and Oromo (agriculturalists from eastern Africa).

The Africans, who were Mende people from Sierra Leone, spared a few of the European ship’s crew and ordered them to sail to Africa.

Mende has repeatedly spread false information with his statements and obstructed efforts toward independent investigations.

Mende is a tough finish.

The announcement Wednesday by government spokesman Lambert Mende ends years of speculation about whether Kabila would seek a third term, despite a constitutional two-term limit.

A 1930s study of the Mende in the west African state of Sierra Leone concluded that a plurality of wives is an agricultural asset, since a large number of women makes it unnecessary to employ wage laborers.

Abraham, Mende Government, p 15. In these years the political system was that each large village along with its satellite villages and settlements would be headed by a chief.

Also the DFG research project installed after the Mende request was not helpful.

Dehler's role as Group Chairman took over after the election of the national set very Erich Mende.

Fyfe, p 541; Abraham, Mende Government, Chapter III.

However, its membership is very broad: among the Mende, almost all men, and some women, are initiates.

In reaction to this move, in 1965 the Federal Minister of All-German Affairs Erich Mende issued the Directives for the appellation of Germany recommending avoiding the initialism.

In Sierra Leone, for example, the Mende, Temne, and Creoles remain as rival power blocs between whom lines of fission easily emerge.

Little, pp 25, 28. He cites F.W.H Midgeod, A View of Sierra Leone, (1926) on the Mende racial mixture.

Little says that the principal objective in the local wars, at least among the Mende, was plunder, not the acquisition of territory.

Their battles with the Mende in Sierra Leone forced them to retreat yet again and settle finally in Liberia where they encountered the Dei.

The Mende claim to be its originators, and there is nothing to contradict this.

The Mende predominate in South -Eastern Sierra Leone (with the exception of Kono District ).

The Mende war was a mass uprising, planned somehow to commence everywhere on 27 and 28 April, in which almost all "outsiders"—whether European or Creole—were seized and summarily executed.