Krahn people

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The Krahn people are an ethnic group primarily found in Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire, known for their significant political influence in Liberia and their involvement in the country’s late 20th-century conflicts.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Krahn people canonical 4
Eastern Krahn 1
Western Krahn 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
human ethnic group
continent Africa
countryOfOrigin Côte d'Ivoire
Liberia
culturalPractice age-grade systems
initiation rites
masking traditions
demographicsRegion Grand Gedeh County
Nimba County
River Gee County
western Côte d'Ivoire border areas
ethnicGroupOf Côte d'Ivoire
Liberia
ethnicity Krahn
ethnonym Krahn
hasEndonym Krahn
hasExonym Guere-Krahn
hasNotableMember Samuel Doe
hasSubgroup Krahn people self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eastern Krahn

Krahn people self-linksurface differs
surface form: Western Krahn
involvedIn First Liberian Civil War
Second Liberian Civil War
languageFamily Kru languages
locatedIn West Africa
nativeTo Liberian interior
border regions between Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire
notableFor involvement in Liberian civil conflicts
political influence in Liberia
partOf Kru cultural-linguistic group
positionHeld President of Liberia
relatedEthnicGroup Grebo people
Kru people
Wee people
religion Christianity
Islam
traditional African religions
socialStructure clan-based society
speaks Kru languages
surface form: Krahn language

Kru languages
traditionalEconomy fishing
hunting
small-scale farming
subsistence agriculture
traditionalRegion southeastern Liberia
western Côte d'Ivoire
usesWritingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Roosevelt Johnson ethnicGroup Krahn people
Grand Gedeh County hasEthnicGroup Krahn people
Krahn people hasSubgroup Krahn people self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eastern Krahn
Krahn people hasSubgroup Krahn people self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Western Krahn
Christopher Wreh hasEthnicGroup Krahn people