Kreooli kultuur
known as Krios; or Nigeria, where they were known as Saros. Some scholars report that a new
wave of Krio immigrant descendants of freed slaves of Sierra Leone and Liberia are known as
Fernandinos (see Fernando Po).An additional sub-group of African descent from the Americans
in Equatorial Guinea were descendants of native Bubi and freed Cuban slaves brought to the
islands during the 1800s. People of this specific ancestry were part of the emancipado population
which included other distinct groups assimilated into the local colonial society.
Brazil
In Brazil, the word crioulo came to mean "dark skinned person", that is, a person of mostly
African ancestry. In the Colony it was common to refer to a slave born in Brazil as a crioulo and
to a slave from Africa as an "African". Thus crioulo came to refer to slaves born and raised in
Brazil. Later, crioulos was used to refer to all people of African ancestry.African slaves were