Senehun Ngola

Senehun Ngola is an ancestral Mende chiefdom village in Moyamba District, Southern Province. The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone and their cultural heritage — secret societies, masked dances, traditional governance, weaving, and oral history — is one of the richest in West Africa.

Senehun Ngola was among the villages documented by anthropologist Joseph Opala in his early research on the Sierra Leone-Gullah connection. The community maintains strong traditions of storytelling, naming ceremonies, and elder-led governance that resonate with Gullah Geechee oral traditions preserved in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.