Politically the vast majority of Sherbro support the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).

The current president of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, is a Mende-speaking ethnic Sherbro[2] from the Gola Rainforest region of the country.

The ethnic group in the nation whose culture is similar (in terms of embrace of Western culture) are the Krio people, descended largely from African Americans (known as Black Loyalists), who had been freed from slavery by the British during the American Revolutionary War, resettled in Nova Scotia, and then chose to go to Freetown in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

They began to employ the Mende people to work for them to find slaves to meet the growing demand.

Like the later Krio, who developed in Sierra Leone after the colony was established, the Sherbro have a more westernized culture than that of other indigenous ethnic groups there.

[3] From the beginning of the settlement of liberated slaves in Sierra Leone, the ancestors of the Krio generally intermarried with their allies the Sherbro.