In Sierra Leone, Krio is the main language. He described Krio as a combination of broken English and African dialect. Other languages spoken are Mende and Temne. Mansaray also spoke broken French.

Krio is the most widely spoken language in Sierra Leone and is native to the Creoles, who were formerly enslaved, freed people from Britain, The United States, and the West Indies.

Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of Western culture in ...

During a long, donnish life he also found time to co-write the only dictionary for Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone. Krio can sound like broken English.

Through his project, titled “Coding in Krio for Teens in Kenema, Sierra Leone,” Bockarie is committed to developing a computer coding curriculum in the Krio language to teach senior secondary school ...

November 29, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - Mac Dixon-Fyle, professor of history at DePauw University, is co-editor of the new book, New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio. A collaboration with Gibril ...