The Kingdom of Koya or Temne Kingdom.
Ra-Bai = Kingdom(Temne).
The Kingdom of Koya or Koya Temne or Temne Kingdom (1505-1896) was a pre-colonial African state in the north of present-day Sierra Leone. Its first capital was at Cape Mount(Wah Kohno) in what is now modern Liberia.
The kingdom was founded by the Temne ethnic group in or around 1505 by migrants from the north seeking trade with the coastal Portuguese in the south.
The kingdom was ruled by an O-Bai(king)whose real name was not known . The sub-kingdoms within the state were ruled by nobles titled "Gbana". The Koya Kingdom kept and maintained diplomatic relations with the British and French in the 18th century. Children of Temne nobles were allowed to seek western educations abroad. Koya also traded with Islamic states to its north and had Muslims within its borders.
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