She spat something in Krio, using words that I'd certainly never heard before.

Krio serves as the commercial language in the capital.

Krios was the dark, silent type.

The younger people don't speak proper Krio, said Joe Kay, curator of the national museum, home to a trove of dusty treasures.

They are a physical sign of the Krio culture, said Tom Walsh, director of the British Council, which funded an exhibition on the colonial dwellings.