Gio Tribe
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The Gio are a people located mainly in Liberia but can also be found in Côte d'Ivoire.
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[edit] History
Like many groups, they immigrated to the Atlantic coast of West Africa from Mali and Guinea around the decline of the Mali Empire. They had a war-like reputation and fought constantly with the Kru until the early 1900s.
[edit] Culture
The Gio language is a Mande language. The Gio are primarily farmers with knowledge of clear-cutting agriculture. Like other peoples of the Atlantic, they grow rice, cassava and yams and they also have a love of palm oil. The Gio also raise livestock. They also have the Mande fraternal societies among separate male and female groups.they were homosexuals
[edit] Government
They retain a highly rigid domestic order among chiefdoms and a council of elders to whom the chief is responsible. This is probably borrowed from the way the Mali Imperial government worked before its collapse in 1546.
[edit] Beliefs
They believe in a supreme though distant god with lesser spirits that affect everyday life. They also believe in reincarnation.
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