Explore: Vai (african People)

The Vai are Mandé peoples that live mostly in Liberia, with a small minority living in south-eastern Sierra Leone. The Vai are known for their indigenous

syllabic writing of the Vai people". Journal of the African Society. 9 (33): 46–58. JSTOR 715184. Massaquoi, Momolu (1911). "The Vai people and their syllabic

The Vai language, also called Vy or Gallinas, is a Mande language spoken by the Vai people, roughly 104,000 in Liberia, and by smaller populations, some

groups of Africa". African Americans constitute the second largest racial and ethnic group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American"

sessions are the rites of passage of the Gola people. Ethnic groups adjacent to the Gola adopted Sande as well. Vai Sande women always sing Sande sings in Mende

Africa. There are also several widely used constructed writing systems in wide use today in West Africa, with the most frequently used being the Vai syllabary

Traditional African masks are worn in ceremonies and rituals across West, Central, and Southern Africa. They are used in events such as harvest celebrations

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ancestry. The Gullah people speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and influenced by African languages in grammar and

Soninke and Susu, as well as smaller ones such as the Ligbi, Vai, and Bissa. Mandé-speaking peoples inhabit various environments, from coastal rainforests to