A New History Of Sierra Leone
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Author | : Joe A. D. Alie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : David John Harris |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199361762 |
A new political history of the former British colony in West Africa, best known for its diamonds and recent violent civil war, this covers 225 years of history and fills a gap in African studies.
Author | : Joseph Kaifala |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349948543 |
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.
Author | : Christopher Fyfe |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 773 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Sierra Leone |
ISBN | : 9780751200867 |
This scholarly narrative focuses on the evolution of the Creole community of Sierra Leone and relates it to the surrounding peoples. Since it first appeared in 1962, the work has been acknowledged as one of the outstanding contributions to the history of West Africa.
Author | : Richard West |
Publisher | : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Masterman Winterbottom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Keen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The United Nations' presence in Sierra Leone has made that country a subject of international attention to an unprecedented degree. Once identified as a source of `the New Barbarism', it has also become a proving ground for Western interventions in the war against terrorism. The conventional diplomatic approach to Sierra Leone's civil war is that it has been a contest between two clearly defined sides. Keen demonstrates this is not the case: the various armed groups were fractured throughout the 1990s, often colluded with one another, and had little interest in bringing the war to an end. This book is not only a comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone, it represents a new and innovative approach to the study of war and Third World development and politics generally.
Author | : Catherine E. Bolten |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520273788 |
“Ethnographically rich, these accounts come to life in beautiful prose. These are inspiring and at times heartbreaking stories of how people living in such difficult and dangerous circumstances find ways to survive, love and take care of each other. This will be a valuable contribution as well as a welcome counter to the more popular images of warzones as places of total immorality.”—Catherine Besteman, author of Transforming Cape Town
Author | : Paul Munro |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2020-02-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1789206251 |
“Empire forestry”—the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century—may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world. Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex ways this dynamic played out in twentieth-century colonial Sierra Leone. While giving careful attention to topics such as forest reservation and exploitation, the volume moves beyond conservation practices and discourses, attending to the overlapping social, economic, and political contexts that have shaped approaches to forest management over time.
Author | : Joseph J. Bangura |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110818734X |
Much of the research and study of the formation of Sierra Leone focuses almost exclusively on the role of the so-called Creoles, or descendants of ex-slaves from Europe, North America, Jamaica, and Africa living in the colony. In this book, Joseph J. Bangura cuts through this typical narrative surrounding the making of the British colony, and instead offers a fresh look at the role of the often overlooked indigenous Temne-speakers. Bangura explores, however, the socio-economic formation, establishment, and evolution of Freetown, from the perspective of different Temne-speaking groups, including market women, religious figures, and community leaders and the complex relationships developed in the process. Examining key issues, such as the politics of belonging, African agency, and the creation of national identities, Bangura offers an account of Sierra Leone that sheds new perspectives on the social history of the colony.