Many languages are spoken in Sierra Leone, but two of the most popular are Krio and Temne. In my own quest to learn Krio, I found little documentation available either in print or online. But soon I found the Krio-English dictionary by Dr. abou Bai-Sheka. And he has now released the first Temne-English dictionary. They are available for $20 and $30 respectively.
They must be purchased directly from the editor. Please contact Patriotic Vanguard Editor Gibril Koroma at: gkgkoroma@gmail.com or 604-308-6087.
About Dr. Abou Bai-Sheka:
Dr.Bai-Sheka (photo)is a former French and Linguistics lecturer and Acting Head of the Department of Modern Languages at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He now lives in Coquitlam, British Columbia,Canada, with his family.
He hails from Gbinti in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone and holds two PhD degrees, one in French Language and Literature and the other in Linguistics from L’Universite Stendhal de Grenoble-3 in Grenoble, France.
A product of St. Francis secondary school in the north and Bo school (sixth form) in the southern province of Sierra Leone, Bai-Sheka was the Resident Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Exchange Students Program in Sierra Leone and was a Fulbright Scholar at the same university. He was also Visiting Assistant Professor in French at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA.
Bai-Sheka stated in the Krio dictionary’s foreword that the purpose of the text is to meet the need for a modern, practical dictionary for use in Sierra Leone by Sierra Leoneans who wish to learn about the Lingua Franca of their country (Krio).
It has been written specifically for English-speaking learners of Krio and native Krio speakers who, he said, need guidance in matters related to the standardized orthography,spelling, idiomatic usage, proverbs, sentence structure etc. It is also meant for speakers of other languages who are trying to improve their present knowledge of Krio or who are just beginning to learn it.
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