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Sierra Leone

Author : Bankole Kamara Taylor
Publisher : New Africa Pres
ISBN 13 : 9987160387
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Sierra Leone written by Bankole Kamara Taylor and published by New Africa Pres. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at Sierra Leone, its people and history. Other subjects are also covered to provide a general introduction to the country. It is not intended for academic specialists, and it is not an in-depth study of the country. It is written from the perspective of a layman or general reader who simply wants to know some important things about this West African country. Sierra Leone is one of the oldest countries in Africa. And before it won independence in 1961, it was also one of the oldest colonies on the continent. Only two African countries won independence in 1961, both from the same colonial power, Great Britain. They were Sierra Leone, on 27 April, and Tanganyika on 9 December. The history of Sierra Leone is also one of the most tragic. But Sierra Leone still is one of the most fascinating countries on the continent in spite of the horrendous tragedy it went through during the civil war in the 1990s. The fact that it emerged intact from that brutal conflict is strong testimony to the resilience of the Sierra Leonean people against overwhelming odds which could have broken weaker souls.

The History of Sierra Leone

Author : A. B. C. Sibthorpe
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714617695
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The History of Sierra Leone written by A. B. C. Sibthorpe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sierra Leone

Author : David Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190237945
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Sierra Leone written by David Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest, however, obscured two crucial processes in this small West African state. On the one hand, while the civil war was momentous, brutal and affected all Sierra Leoneans, it was also just one element in the long and faltering attempt to build a nation and state given the country's immensely problematic pre-colonial and British colonial legacies. On the other, the aftermath of the war precipitated a huge international effort to construct a 'liberal peace', with mixed results, and thus made Sierra Leone a laboratory for post-Cold War interventions. Sierra Leone examines 225 years of its history and fifty years of independence, placing state- society relations at the centre of an original and revealing investigation of those who have tried to rule or change Sierra Leone and its inhabitants and the responses engendered. It interweaves the historical narrative with sketches of politicians, anecdotes, the landscape and environment and key turning-points, alongside theoretical and other comparisons with the rest of Africa. It is a new contribution to the debate for those who already know Sierra Leone and a solid point of entry for those who wish to know.

Sierra Leone Remembered

Author : Esther L. Megill
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1418455490
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Sierra Leone Remembered written by Esther L. Megill and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-07-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther Megill had an extraordinary life experience in Sierra Leone as a medical technologist–extraordinary in the work she did, in the work she helped others to do, and in the legacy of good will she left behind at the time of her “retirement.” Her book, Sierra Leone Remembered, reads like an adventure novel. Written in an easy conversational style, it is a true story whose “characters” draw you into their world. There are surprises at every turn and some will make you laugh along with Esther and her friends. Some will make you weep as she wept for the sick, displaced and those who lost their lives. This author was there and she takes you with her. Her stories have an unmistakable ring of essential truth. Other authors may have given us history lessons, descriptive passages, testamonials of faith, or glimpses into the culture and everyday lives of people. Esther Megill gives all that and more. Her feast of photographs tell thousands more stories at a glance. Pull up a chair, open Sierra Leone Remembered, and you will see and hear Esther tell her story in her own voice. Her story inspires one to look for the best in the human spirit despite circumstances. One sees that dedication to serve others with compassion, courage and faith, and medicine blessed with God’s love, can make a difference. –Sylvia Smyth

The History of Sierra Leone

Author : C. Magbaily Fyle
Publisher : M. Evans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Sierra Leone written by C. Magbaily Fyle and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 1981 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone

Author : Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180037
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone written by Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and, on the other hand, are embedded in the various discourses and historical narratives about the continent and its peoples. Even though Africans have reframed these discourses and narratives to reclaim and re-center their own worldviews, agency, and experiences since independence they remained, until recently, heavily sedimented with Western colonialist and racialist ideas and frameworks. This anthology engages and interrogates the differing frameworks that have informed the different practices—professional as well as popular–of retelling the Sierra Leonean past. In a sense, therefore, it is concerned with the familiar outline of the story of the making and unmaking of an African “nation” and its constituent race, ethnic, class, and cultural fragments from colonialism to the present. Yet, Sierra Leone, the oldest and quintessential British colony and most Pan-African country in the continent, provides interesting twists to this familiar outline. The contributors to this volume, who consist of different generations of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra Leone in Africa, the United States, and Europe, provide their own distinctive reflections on these twists based on their research interests which cover ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation, nation building, resistance, and social conflict. Their contributions engage various paradoxes and transformative moments in Sierra Leone and West African history. They also reflect the changing modes of historical practice and perspectives over the last fifty years of independence.

A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, Western Africa

Author : John Joseph Crooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, Western Africa written by John Joseph Crooks and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New History of Sierra Leone

Author : Joe A. D. Alie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of Sierra Leone written by Joe A. D. Alie and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the colonial era very little thought was given to the promotion of African history and culture in African educational institutions. Most colonial educationalists stubbornly refused to appreciate that Africa had a history worth talking about.

Sierra Leone in History and Tradition

Author : Frederick William Butt-Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sierra Leone in History and Tradition written by Frederick William Butt-Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century

Author : Earl Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century written by Earl Conteh-Morgan and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone's current predicament can best be understood within a continuum spanning its precolonial to its more contemporary history. This study traces the contradictions of the historical legacy and the excesses of the independent nation-state to unravel the sequences of dependency that culminated almost inevitably in political instability, unprecedented socio-economic decline, and civil war. The authors draw on a rich texture of historical and political insights reflecting established knowledge, while also plumbing contemporary orature to present a truly holistic perspective of this soft state. Students, scholars, or general readers interested in the dilemmas of developing states will find this essential reading.

The Underneath of Things

Author : Mariane C. Ferme
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520225430
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Underneath of Things written by Mariane C. Ferme and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Researched with unusual sensitivity, original in approach, illuminating beyond its immediate geographical and theoretical referents, and written in a style that is both carefully crafted and eminently accessible...this is the work of a remarkably talented observer and scholar."—Jane Guyer, editor of Money Matters: Instability, Values and Social Payments in the Modern History of West African Communities, former president of the African Studies Association "The world is currently quite aware of Sierra Leone and its predicament, and it needs this well-informed and beautifully written account of what makes the country so wonderful despite its woes. Ferme's work is truly transcendent, capturing magnificently well some of the most important aspects of an otherwise "difficult" ethnographic case. It is a truthful and honest piece of work, based on a deep grasp of the ethnographer's craft. "—Paul Richards, author of Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone Ferme is a true master in the magic of "things." She gives the study of secrecy new impetus by examining its history, relating that history not only to discourse but also to material conditions. She brilliantly shows how, for Sierra Leone societies, the celebration of ambiguity has been a way to live with permanent danger-from the long history of slavery through the present civil war. —Peter Geschiere, author of The Modernity of Witchcraft, Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa The Underneath of Things is a model of patience, detailed observation, and elegant writing: a theoretically creative study that is keen to track and to disentangle the webs and flows of everyday life.—Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony

A History of Sierra Leone

Author : Christopher Fyfe
Publisher : [London] : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Sierra Leone written by Christopher Fyfe and published by [London] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This monumental history of Sierra Leone, the first to be published on such a scale, is written with particular emphasis on liberated Africans and their descendants, the Sierra Leone Creoles, and their contribution to the history of West Africa"--Jacket.

A Short History of Sierra Leone

Author : Christopher Fyfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Sierra Leone written by Christopher Fyfe and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Back to Africa

Author : Richard West
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to Africa written by Richard West and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1971 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Krio of Sierra Leone

Author : Akintola J. G. Wyse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882581620
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Krio of Sierra Leone written by Akintola J. G. Wyse and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Krio of SIERRA LEONE OFTEN ERRONEOUSLY CALLED 'CREOLE' ARE A PEOPLE WITH A UNIQUE TRADITION AND HISTORY. THEIR ANCESTORS, THE FIRST COLONIST OF THE PENINSULA ON WHICH FREETOWN STANDS, WERE BLACK PEOPLE BROUGHT TO AFRICA FROM LONDON, NOVA SCOTIA AND JAMAICA, AND LIBERATED AFRICANS' FREED FROM Slave SHIPS INTERCEPTED ON THEIR WAY TO THE AMERICAS.

Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War

Author : Joseph Kaifala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349948543
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War written by Joseph Kaifala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves, and toward its political independence and civil war. In 1462, the country was discovered by a Portuguese explorer, Pedro de Sintra, who named it Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains). Sierra Leone later became a lucrative hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At the end of slavery in England, Freetown was selected as a home for the Black Poor, free slaves in England after the Somerset ruling. The Black Poor were joined by the Nova Scotians, American slaves who supported or fought with the British during the American Revolution. The Maroons, rebellious slaves from Jamaica, arrived in 1800. The Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery laws, were also taken to Freetown. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and thirty years after independence the country collapsed into a brutal civil war.

Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone

Author : Magbaily C. Fyle
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810865041
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone written by Magbaily C. Fyle and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone was founded, albeit under British control, with the highest hopes of being a refuge for liberated Africans and freed slaves. When the country received its independence, hopes for the future grew even stronger. Alas, its expectations came crashing down when the country's situation grew steadily worse after repeated military interventions and a devastating ten-year civil war that raged throughout the 1990s. Now that the war is over, there is once again renewed cause for optimism about the country's future, as Sierra Leone becomes an active participant in African and world affairs. This new edition is based primarily on recent research on the country, but covers the earliest known inhabitants, the colonial era, and the period of independence including the very confusing turmoil of the recent past. The chronology briefly traces its history and the introduction provides an essential overview of all the recent developments in the country. Hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries describe significant leaders, events, political parties and movements, ethnic groups, and related political, economic, and social aspects. A bibliography is included to facilitate further research.