Yonibana

Yonibana lies in the Yoni country of central Sierra Leone, east of the coastal peninsula. The Yoni are part of the Temne-speaking world, whose communities cultivated rice and other crops in a landscape of forest, savanna and river valleys. The history of Yoni is preserved in accounts of its chiefs and their relationships with neighbouring Temne communities. Its inland position places it between the coast and the upper river country, in a region long shaped by the movement of people and exchange.