Kisi

Kisi, group of some 120,000 people inhabiting a belt of hills covered by wooded savannas where Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia meet; they speak a language of the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. Rice, cultivated in marshes, is the staple of the Kisi diet; other foods include yams, groundnuts (peanuts), cotton, bananas, melons, and taro. Coffee and kola are grown for external trade. Kisi villages are built of round clay huts with conical roofs....