Kasseh

Kasseh is a historic rural town in Bureh Kasseh Maconteh Chiefdom, Port Loko District located in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, with a population of 3,386 (2006 estimate).

The small town of Kasseh is widely known throughout Sierra Leone for being the birthplace of one of West Africa's greatest indigenous leader and Sierra Leone's greatest leader, Bai Bureh, who led the Temne people of Northern Sierra Leone in an uprising against British rule in 1898.

The house where Bai Bureh resided is still present today in Kasseh.

The population of Kasseh is mainly Muslim at around 97% or even higher, as there are virtually no Christians in the town.

The Muslim of Kasseh combine Islam with their traditional indigenous beliefs.