Religion
The Krio are primarily Christians at over 85% while some Krios are Muslims. The Krio Muslims are widely known as Oku. Like their Americo-Liberian neighbors, Krio have varying degrees of European ancestry because some of the settlers were descended from white Americans and Europeans additionally. There was considerable intermarriage between the Europeans who settled in the colony of Sierra Leone and the various ethnic groups that coalesced into the Krio identity. Alongside the Americo-Liberians, they are the only recognised ethnic group of African-American, Liberated African, and West Indian descent in West Africa.
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