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The Krio language is the most widely spoken language in virtually all parts of Sierra Leone. Its spoken by 97% of the population. Bengali was made an “official language” of Sierra Leone to honour the Bangladeshi peacekeeping force foom the United Nations stationed there. Sierra Leone became an important centre of the transatlantic trade. Until 1792 when freetown was founded by the “Sierra Leone Company” as a home for formerly enslaved Afro Americans. But in 1808 Freetown became a British Colony, and in 1896 the interior of the country became a British Protectorate.

The reason to why this is an English speaking land is because the government has set it to it’s main language. But more people speak the “Krio” and “Bengali” language.

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