Does anybody know about the origin of the kpelle/bassa/kru tribes in Liberia?

Question

finding ur ancestry when u originate from liberia is hard lol

anytime i try to research it, i just find info on people coming there from all sorts of countries && on top of that majority of us have european last names which makes it 10 x's harder = [

Answer 1

Perhaps you missed some of these where you might learn something more.

The Dei ethnic group are a vanguard group of Bassa that settled Liberia in waves. The Bassa (Dei, Bassa, Kru, Krahn, Grebo), also referred to as the Kwa-Speakers, can trace their historical origins to Mozambique in pre-dynastic times.

http://liberiantips.com/index.php/5

Tribes immigrating from the Republic of Ivory Coast in the 1500s:

Kru (Tajuasohn). Bassa. Dei. Mamba. Grebo.

http://www.liberianforum.com/history.htm

The Kpelle are the largest ethnic group of the West African nation of Liberia, and are important also in southeastern Guinea (where they are also known as Guerze). They speak the Kpelle language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpelle_peop...

Most of the people of the Kpelle tribe are animist.

http://www.cstone.net/~martinj/liberia.h...