Introduction / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid -- Rebellious subjects and citizens : writing subalterns into the history of Sierra Leone / Ismail Rashid -- Clapping with one hand : the search for a gendered "province of freedom" in the ...

Senegal has its acclaimed Saint-Louis Jazz Festival and Dak’Art Biennale, Burkina Faso’s mammoth film festival, FESPACO, while Benin’s return to ancestral art and Cote d’Ivoire’s resurgent nightlife in Abidjan demonstrate how culture continues to fuel tourism and national branding.

Over the centuries, Sierra Leone has been a place of refuge. The Limba peoples were drawn by whispers of a land untouched by turmoil in Africa’s Sahelian kingdoms, and other tribes set out for there too, including the Mende, Loko, Susu, Fula, Temne and ...

The article explores the history of Sierra Leone taken from the diaries of its first governor, John Clarkson, and the reports of the Sierra Leone Company. The early settlers of St. George Bay (Granville Town), Flora Bay and Freetown consisted of ex-slaves ...

Sierra Leone is about to jam to the rhythms of reggae, as some of the Caribbean’s biggest stars descend on Freetown for the inaugural One Nation Reggae Festival – a six-day celebration of music, heritage,

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, August 9 (UNHCR) - Sierra Leone is experiencing a wave of homecoming this week as its refugees in Liberia continue streaming home while their counterparts from Guinea make the final leg of their journey back to their home areas.