Ethnic group of Liberia
Jabo (pronounced [ɟʱɑbo],[1] variant spellings Dyabo, Djabo) is the self-designation of an ethnic group located in the southeastern part of the Republic of Liberia in West Africa.
They have also sometimes referred to themselves as Gweabo
[2] or Nimiah tribe.[3]
English speakers also use the name of the group for a single member of that group, or for their speech variety.
- ^ The name has the default tone of the language, tone "2", here unmarked.
- ^ SNG, S&B [page needed]
- ^ WPA, [Form A]:"Ancestry --Negro- [Dfabo?] group- Nimi'ab tribe." While at the University of Nebraska, he apparently gave people to understand that his tribe was called Nimiah: "One of these students, Charles Blooah, was born in Africa, a member of the aboriginal and cannibalistic Nimiah tribe of Liberia. At the age of 14 he fled from his tribe in order to escape becoming its king. By 1936 his advancement in education in this country, beginning as an illiterate savage, had reached such a standing that the University of Nebraska awarded him a fellowship In the department of social science." In "The Negros of Nebraska – The Negro goes to school". URL accessed 26 April 2006 [1]. (Blooah died in Colorado, USA, in 1978, a lifelong Methodist.)