In general, the Koranko are a peaceful people who have maintained a separate ethnic identity, despite years of tribal mixings.

This region lacks adequate road systems and is not easily accessible, leaving the Kuranko socially isolated.

[6] The Kuranko moved into the territory of present-day Sierra Leone from Mande in what is now Mali,after some leadership struggles in the Empire.

[7] Kama travelled widely across the area with an Islamic alfa in the late 1600s, encountering numerous military battles on the way.

[8] Since their origins were in the savanna lands, they have taken active measures to preserve their habitat as this type, including setting fires as part of the hunting process, to ensure that large plant life and woodland does not dominate.

)[8] Men in the Kuranko culture undergo various initiation rituals on reaching puberty, becoming members of a secretive "club" when they do so.

[9] The Kuranko people also utilize practices of the Bondo secret society which aims at gradually but firmly establishing attitudes related to adulthood in girls, discussions on fertility, morality and proper sexual comportment.