Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.