West African Krio

[chicuejo]

I want to know this phrase in Krio: "PLANTED AND BUILT UP IN JESUS CHRIST, FIRM IN THE FAITH"

Im mexican, and I love Sierra Leone country. Could you tranlate for me please. Thanks

[Killayut]

@chicuejo Na with Jesus Christ dem plant and build me . and with am , me get faith well well ...  or this way ( nah with Jesus Christ dem born me and with am me grow up . And me get faith well well.

[Omrmcy]

@Killayut Look at this foolishness....Na for pray to god good good wan leh e men you. Bicoz u dae pass lek udat in head no dae...

[pusifut]

I dont think Sierra Leone is the only place where creoles were established however i think it was one of the best examples

[Killayut]

Pidgin words like JUJU, Poto POTO are all Kalabari-ijaw words of Nigeria. juju in kalabari means confusion.. ee juju teh.. ( you are confused ) ah  juju te ( i am confused ) the act of making some one to be in a state of juju ( confusion ) is juju making... thats how it came.. to do juju... Poto poto in KALABARI means extremely soft and wet..

[pusifut]

@Killayut in jamaica, poto poto means the same thing. words such as nyam, se, buckra and a long list of words we use in jamaica came from various languages in west africa. what kills me is that because we arent taught african culture and jamaican linguist, most jamaicans assume that its a bad word or just a made up word.

[Killayut]

@pusifut .. Thanks bro

[pusifut]

@Killayut sister* lol

[Killayut]

@pusifut ..LOL.. my bad...My sister..

[Xaymaicana]

@pusifut well its up to jamaicans like myself and you who know better to teach others.

[ismfoflove182]

cool story. i've been to sierra leone. its an awesome place to chill. (:

[Killayut]

Pidgin English was formed in the Niger delta area of Nigeria by the Ijaws of Kalabari, Okrika and Ibani along side the South West African part of coastal Cameroun. Sierra Leone was founded by freed Pidgin speaking slaves from the Niger delta.

[kolenten]

@Killayut Correction. Pidgin in Nigeria and creole in Sierra Leone was introduced by freed slaves from Jamiaca & Nova Scotia who were sent back to Africa when slavery was abolished. Free Town, was one of thoes places that these freed slaves settled not Nigeria/Cameroun. These same freed slaves and some of their off-springs worked for the British all over West Africa. FBC (1st instution of higher learning in W. Africa) in SL help spred pidgin through some of you people coming to get an education

[Killayut]

@kolenten  Pidgin had been spoken before slave trade started.. Europeans did not just go to Africa and immediately start slave trade. PIDGIN STARTED THE FIRST DAY the BRITONS tried to speak with the natives. The natives were KALABARI-IJAWS of Niger delta. The White man's english the natives tried to speak was the foundation of pidgin. PIDGIN speakers taken as slaves to the Caribbean introduced it.. Even a dummy would understand this.

[Killayut]

@kolenten And there was no freed slave speaking pidgin brought to Nigeria. I am Nigerian and from the strong pidgin speaking area of Port harcourt. There is no freed slave group among us. Freed slaves were taken to SIERRA LEONE and Liberia. Brazilians that were brought back to Lagos were Portuguese speaking people and they were not freed slaves but Released SLAVES from Brazil.There area is COMPOS in Lagos island.

[Killayut]

@kolenten The KALABARI SLAVES TAKEN TO GUYANA formed the Berbice creole that was spoken in guyana for a while.. check Berbice-kalabari, berbice creole or berbice-ijaw.

[Killayut]

@kolenten LOL fREED SLAVES never had no education. they were slaves freed from slave ships. most of them did not even get to the Caribbean land....SLAVES already in the Caribbean were not freed. blacks in Nova scotia were not slaves but excaped slaves who fled to nova scotia from USA . nOVA SCOTIA was another free town for them.tHEY WERE NEVER BROUGHT BACK.... the freed slaves were slaves freed from slave ships. .

[Omrmcy]

@Killayut SO I HAVE CAUGHT YOU AGAIN TALKING YOU NASTY BULLSHIT ABOUT NIGERIAN PIDGIN

FUCKK OFF THIS PAGE....KRIO IS KRIO AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BARBARIC IJAW PEOPLE

[Killayut]

@Omrmcy Be civil my friend. Don't insult a people cos you don't like them. Go and do your DNA and see . You might just be an Ijaw claiming Sierra Leonian. We are trying to pass information and intimidation would only hide the facts. Give good points to back your claims than being insolent. I won't hit you back on that. . Freed Ijaw slaves speaking pidgin taken to Free Town introduced pidgin english that yall call Krio. Period..

[Xaymaicana]

@Omrmcy LOL KRIO is nigerian pidgin mixed with patois. 

[Omrmcy]

@Xaymaicana Krio is Jamaican patios spoken by the maroon mixed with English, french, Portuguese, Arabic, and SEVERAL native African languages.

Nigerian Pidgin has nothing to do with Krio, due to the fact that Krio existed as a a stable language before Nigerian Pidgin ever exited.

By all means Nigerian Pidgin is an offshoot of Krio spoken by Krio ex-slaves sent there as missionaries and teachers.

[Xaymaicana]

@Omrmcy Krio has EVERYTHING to do with Nigerian pidgin both indirectly and directly.

As some of the Jamaicans who repatriated to Africa via Salone, were of "Nigerian" descent. How can Salone "missionaries" teach Igbo and Yoruba ppl their own words? lol.

[MonaKadiFreetown]

Pa Siaka Stevens - Rest in Peace!

[hannello33]

Translation 'dear' should be translated 'expensive'

[DBHEcho]

african descendants butchering english? no . . . i cant believe that

[lionzion22]

@DBHEcho

I guess you've never heard a Scotsman ot Irishman speaking english before...no? Maybe your just an asshole. Yes?

[Xaymaicana]

@lionzion22 lol

[ani1616]

Love from Sierra leone Africans unite form every corner of the world.

[Akrymestv]

nice

[regnata415]

Where there is no vision the people perish, Kabasah lodge tells its own story.

[manzano0627]

This video is part of the "Story of English" PBS series from 1985 or 1986. You can probably get all the videos somewhere online (expensive I think), and there was a book made too.

Since I'm using this video for my students, I reluctantly deleted one comment with foul language. Please refrain from insulting each other so that I don't have to do that again. Thanks.

[BigBoyzEnt]

very nice im so happy to seee this.

[Ohfollah]

It is good to see pop shek again I think he tried but he made the wrong decission at the end to appoint momoh that is where our problems started. He is also my grandpa

[intapropromajamjam09]

wow wat a country dat is my sweet sierra leone i respect u 4 life no matter wat happen to 2 even if u nt perfect bt i wil always love dis country god help us to make it a batter place 4 the ppl who live there and 4 other ppl wat else can i sai jus love it all respect to all the sierra leonean peace jus stay strong my ppl peace frm london 2 sierra leone

[smrfox99]

Similar to me, and my people (Jamaican). The different languages of the world (or what ever term you use to describe a native tongue) are simply beautiful; the similarities are striking.

[dirtberd]

when was this made?

[megaboy211]

There are many in Africa who hardly speak a word of English but are doing fine in life financially and socially. The language you speak doesn't determine how far life takes you but your determinations and motivations. I am a proud Linba-boy from Sierra Leone and doing fine in life. I put this down to the fact that I take pride and acknowledged my origin enabling me to know where I want to be in life/future.

[ridim2007]

The video is very interesting..i think blck ppl should try to develope the awareness of Africans and their diaporans about the relation and oness of these creoles. As there are many Africans as well as Caribbeans or Americans who dont even know as whethere we have one root creole language. And i think all of them must be given one name since they r of one root to avoid separation and bring about unity rather than calling it Patwa in Jamaica, creole is west Africa etc.

[Xaymaicana]

@ridim2007 the reason why there is a need to separate caribbean patois with african krio is because they're ARE difference.

For example:

english: "You are crazy"

krio/pidgin: "you dey crace"

patois: "yuh mussi mad" or "is mad yuh mad"

get what i am saying?

[Xaymaicana]

@Xaymaicana LOL *they are different.

[ADOJOHNSULE1]

@Xaymaicana I will like to educate you a bit,most of the krio are recaptives slaves en route to the new world,but were stopped by the british naval forces,talking about the language you can not pinpoint the origin,but i know for a fact the languge has half of it taken from the yoruba languge. and again most missionary sent to nigeria in those days were of nigerian extract ie yoruba,ibo ijaws..a good example is samuel ajayi crowder the first black bishop,he was a recaptive slave.

[manzano0627]

And how about Singaporeans? why should they speak in their own accent when only a few million can understand them? or maybe New Yorkers? Bostonians? Kiwis? Hawaiians?

Then again, whose English are they "supposed" to speak anyway? There is no such thing as "proper" language. THAT is the point of the video.

"Language is a dialect with an army and a navy."

Please do some research on creolization and language history before casually dismissing an entire culture.

[NenehB7669]

Kmed232 what a strong statement, maybe the sierra leoneans you know don't think big. So speak for them NOT all. I'am a sierra leonean with alot of PRIDE. So what the hell are you talking about.

*STOP TALKING OUT OF YOUR ASS*

[nightime1000]

Just speak proper English. How far will Krio take you.

[kmed232]

sierra leoneans dont think big at all instead they keepon suprising at other african countries cuz they lack self pride

[portloko]

Wow, that's pa sheki indeed. My feelings about him are mixed. As much as he was responsible for some of our problems in Sierra Leone, he also built NEW ROAD, the national stadium, youyi building and gave numerous scholarships to students to study in Russia, London and Cuba.

[ptkoroma]

This man is responsible for wrecking our country

[mistrydul]

if he is responsible wot would u say about teejan kabba dat hopeless thief.

[ptkoroma]

He is responsible because he started it all

[maceioninjutsu]

the white guy looks like a monkey fuckin crackers

[spectac24]

MY FAMILY LIVED ON KISSY AS WELL

[donkank]

Which area in Kissy? I am also a Kissy boy having lived in almost every area from Kissy Brook to Mess -Mess, from Low cost Bridge to Thunder Hill or Cox Street or Cassel Farm etc.

Milen Field and Boston Community Centre used to be our Recreation Centres during the day.

I attended Kissy Infant commonly called craise yard school and KPS. Respect to you man!

[likkletiney]

same ere!...kissy road...grandparents ownd a shop dare but it got burnt dwn durin da war!!

[freetownsupreme]

omg that was SIAKA STEVENS plus salone be4 the war wow

[netaddict6989]

this is interesting did they say a mrs. coker?

they are a krio family

[fsg1965]

That is my grampa! I think this video is made in 1985!

[Xaymaicana]

lmfao! we say 'Yie' for "eye" in Jamaica too lmfao! It's funny to hear.

[Xaymaicana]

theres a video called "Jamaican Creole" yall should check it out ans see the similarities and differences.

[pabrown1984]

Na den yong yong boy we wan fo imitate den american ghetto gangsters we de pwel di kontri-o!

[Thinxrecords]

Ah Salone us tem we go cam to this back,wata comot na me yai after ar luk this video

Bcoz Salone don pwell now

Papa God hep we

[pusifut]

i like this

[teecoks]

Where did you get this video? My mother is the woman featured in the market place...and there I was trying to get her attention as she bought the peppers with my older sister looking on!

[netaddict6989]

really so you are a Coker?

[teecoks]

Yep...

[teecoks]

Yes I am

[netaddict6989]

cool, cool my own family are creoles (krios) from salone.

we lived on kissy street

[mesesay2]

I like to see de old days, I think dis video was shot in de late 70s or early 80s

[sumatube64]

That is pop shek alias Bandale!