Pujehun is the capital of
Pujehun District in the
Southern Province. The current estimate of the population of Pujehun is 20,121 people.
Pujehun is a
rural town and is the commercial and administrative center of Pujehun District. Pujehun lies about 50 miles south of
Bo, and about 200 miles -south-east of
Freetown. The inhabitants of Pujehun are largely from the
Mende ethnic group, although like with virtually all areas in Sierra Leone, the
Krio language of the
Sierra Leone Creole people is the most widely spoken.
History
Pujehun was named after the powerful
Mende warrior Nyagua, who was residing at the nearby village of
Panguma. When Nyagua and his men went to battle, they used the site of the present village as their resting place. At that time There was a lot of pepper growing in the town, which the Mende call "puei." At any time they reached that area, they called it Pujehun.
Ethnicity
The majority of the population in Pujehun are from the
Mende ethnic group
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
.
References
Populated places in Sierra Leone
Southern Province, Sierra Leone
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