The Mende Problem
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1. Background The Mende problem arises from the observation by Hair (1968:54), that unlike the other ethnolinguistic groups in Sierra Leone, "the Mende cannot be identified decisively in the pre-1700 sources." Although the term Mende was employed before 1700, "it was not yet the name of a single ethnolinguistic unit" (Hair, 1968:54-5). Moreover, the oral histories of the Mende chiefdoms collected by Abraham (1971) suggest a recent occupation of the present Mende homeland. They reveal that no Mende chiefdom appears to have been founded more than five
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