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Temne can refer to:
- Temne people, an ethnic group of Sierra Leone
- Kingdom of Koya or Temne Kingdom, 1505-1896 state in the north of present-day Sierra Leone
- Temne language, spoken by the Temne people
- Temne War, an 1801–1805 conflict
- Temne-Susu War, an 1815 conflict
Usage examples of "temne".
As an Australian social scientist was told by a Temne tribesman in Sierra Leone: "When Temne people choose a thing, we must all agree with the decision--this is what we call cooperation.
The reason for the crushing conformity required of pre-industrial man, the reason the Temne tribesman has to "go along" with his fellows, is precisely that he has nowhere else to go.
Outnumbered fifty to one by the indigenous Temne, Mende, and other tribes of the interior, the better-educated Creoles were terrified of a British withdrawal, especially after a violent uprising by the interior tribesmen following the imposition of a “hut tax.
As in so many other places, independence in 1961 began with high hopes for democracy, to be quickly followed by a political melt-down along tribal lines, with the Temne of the north, the Mende of the south, and the Creoles of the coast breaking into separate factions.