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2 unusual facts about Kru people


John Sherington

John Jebbor Sherington is from the Kru tribe and is a retired Sierra Leonean international footballer and the former manager of the Sierra Leonean national football team.

Samuel Kaboo Morris

When he was 14 years old, his tribe,(the Kru) was attacked by the Grebos one day and Kaboo was captured.


Anthony W. Gardiner

The British made a formal show of force at Monrovia in a mission led by Sir Arthur Havelock; meanwhile, the looting of a German vessel along the Kru Coast and personal indignities inflicted by the natives upon the shipwrecked Germans, led to the bombardment of Nana Kru by a German warship and the presentation at Monrovia of a claim for damages, payment of which was forced by the threat of the bombardment of the capital.

Little Liberia, Staten Island

The Liberian Civil War led to a flight of Liberian immigrants, fleeing ethnic struggles between the Kru, Gola and Grebo communities, corrupt government, and political strife.


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