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Author: Joe A. D. Alie
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0199361762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Christopher Fyfe
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 773
ISBN-13: 9780751200867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Joseph Kaifala
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-22
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1349948543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Richard West
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Masterman Winterbottom
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Published: 1803
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine E. Bolten
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0520273788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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: Earl Conteh-Morgan
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSierra 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.
Author: Paul Munro
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2020-02-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1789206251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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
Published: 2017-11-09
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 110818734X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch 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.
