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processed for cheese and other products. This livestock, such as goats and cattle, is significant as a marker of wealth and because they serve as bride-price payments. The boy's family gives animals to the girl's family before the marriage takes place—these animals are used as a means of economic exchange.
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Yalunka live in larger settlements established since the eighteenth century. The Yalunka region is mixed savannah and forest. The country is hilly, and most of it is 1,000 to 2,000 feet above sea level. Most Yalunka settlements are located in the valleys between the hills. Since the 1950s, many
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The
Yalunka people are referred to as Jalonca, Jalonga, Jalonka, Jalooke, Jalonke, Jalunka, Jalunke, Jellonke, Yalanka, Yalonga, Yalounka, Yalunga, Yalonka, Yalonke, Yalunke, Dialanké, Dialinké, Dialonka, Dialonque, Djallonké, Djallonka, Djallounké, Djallounka, Dyalonké, Dyalonka, or Dialonké.
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Yalunka are primarily subsistence farmers, with rice and millet being their staple crops. Peanuts, sweet potatoes, maize, and beans are also grown. Chickens, herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep and goats are kept. Goats and cattle provide milk as a food source, which is used directly and
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which aims at gradually but firmly establishing attitudes related to adulthood in girls, discussions on fertility, morality and proper sexual comportment. The society also maintains an interest in the well-being of its members throughout their lives.
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that a man may have up to four living wives. The first wife has seniority and authority over the wives he marries later. The husband, according to
Bankole Taylor, "has complete control over his wives and is responsible for feeding and clothing them".
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The meaning of the term
Dialonké," literally means 'inhabitants of the mountains.' Jallon meaning 'mountain' in the Yalunka language and which name only Futa carries in contemporary extends from the northeast of
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to the mountainous massif of Futa. Jallon is a name that portrays a situation of pride, unlike authors such as André Arcin have claimed, derived from the surname Diallo of the Fulani.
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and are considered devout. At the same time, they have retained many pre-Islamic beliefs and practices, combining the two in a syncretic way. One of their traditional practice is
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Manga Sewa, was a great Yalunka chief in Northern Sierra Leone
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572:The Yalunka people also utilize practices of the
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637:Alpha Ibrahima Keira, Guinean politician
422:. Yalunka is mutually intelligible with
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974:. New York Public Library. p. 695.
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600:Keira or Keyra (var : Keran)
455:The interior of a Yalunka village
1345:. Cogent Social Sciences, 1–27.
1321:. New Africa Pres. p. 153.
1285:. Greenwood Press. p. 867.
1262:African Studies Program (2008).
1170:. Nyakon Publishers. p. 10.
785:. New Africa Pres. p. 150.
612:Niakhasso (var : Nyakhasso)
355:The Yalunka are a branch of the
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1059:Encyclopedia of African Peoples
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359:and are closely related to the
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1315:Bankole Kamara Taylor (2014).
1083:Mohamed Saidou N'Daou (2005).
985:Mohamed Saidou N'Daou (2005).
779:Bankole Kamara Taylor (2014).
523:The Yalunka are predominantly
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1792:Ethnic groups in Sierra Leone
954:History in Africa, Volume 21
667:Mata Vieux, Guinean musician
622:Katy Gouly, Guinean musician
375:or east to live amongst the
149:Portrait of a Yalunka (1861)
1415:Sierra Leone and Its People
1357:Bjälkande, Owolabi, et al.
658:, Sierra Leonean journalist
596:Some Yalunka surnames are:
519:Yalunka women from Kondébou
420:Niger–Congo language family
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1062:. Routledge. p. 194.
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870:Kevin Shillington (2013).
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812:Area Handbook for Guinea
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1235:Alusine Jalloh (1999).
1181:Alusine Jalloh (1999).
1116:. Mathuen. p. 51.
1029:Ofosuwa Abiola (2018).
733:Statistics Sierra Leone
565:The Yalunka society is
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1140:Encyclopedia of Africa
1113:Ancient Ghana and Mali
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649:, Guinean politician
634:, Guinean footballer
628:, Guinean politician
574:Bondo secret society
287:, Mikhifore people,
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692:"Yalunka in Guinea"
503:Society and culture
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