Editing Creole peoples (section)

=== West Africa ===

[[File:SierraLeone Hofstra 043.jpg|thumb|upright|Portrait of a Creole family in [[Sierra Leone]], early 1900s.]]
In [[Sierra Leone]], the mingling of newly freed Africans and [[Multiracial people|mixed heritage]] [[Nova Scotian settlers|Nova Scotians]] and [[Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone|Jamaican Maroons]] from the Western hemisphere and [[Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone|Liberated Africans]] - such as the [[Akan people|Akan]], [[Igbo people]], and [[Yoruba people]] - over several generations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries led to the eventual creation of the 
[[aristocratic]] [[ethnic group]] now known as the ''[[Sierra Leone Creole people|Creoles]]''. Thoroughly [[Western culture|westernized]] in their manners and [[bourgeois]] in their methods, the Creoles established a comfortable dominance in the country through a combination of [[British colonialism|British colonial]] favouritism and political and economic activity. Their influence in the modern republic remains considerable, and their language [[Sierra Leone Krio language|Krio]] - an [[English-based creole language]] - is the [[lingua franca]] and [[de facto]] [[national language]] spoken throughout the country.

The extension of these Sierra Leoneans' business and religious activities to neighbouring [[Nigeria]] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - where many of them had ancestral ties - subsequently caused the creation of an offshoot in that country, the ''[[Saro people|Saros]]''. Now often considered to be part of the wider Yoruba ethnicity, the Saros have been prominent in politics, the law, religion, the arts, and journalism.