Margibi County: History
Margibi County is one of the latest set of counties created in 1985 by an Interim National Assembly decree dated December 13, 1985. During the Civil War, the county was one of the largest to have maximum displacements. An estimated 200,000 people were displaced in the county between Konala and Kakata. The county was created by merging the territories of Marshall and Gibi. The county was traditionally inhabited by Bassa tribe. The Kpelle, a southwestern Mende speaking people are another tribe along with the Bassa, who also have their historic homelands in the region.