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

    by Arthur Abraham, Lansana Gberie, Gibril Cole, Nemata Blyden, Festus Cole, Yusuf Bangura, Tamba M'bayo, Ibrahim Abdullah ...
    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, ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Postcolonial Politics in Sierra Leone, 1961-2001

    Arrested Democracy and the Rise of Autocracy

    by Gibril R. Cole ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates the historical trajectory of postcolonial Sierra Leone, especially the persistence of a culture of political violence and autocratic tendencies.Regarded as a litmus test for the consolidation of democracy in postwar Sierra Leone, the 2023 national polls instead became a stark reminder of the persistence of élite bickering, electoral malfeasance, autocratic political ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Krio of West Africa

    Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century

    by Gibril R. Cole ...
    Series series New African Histories
    Sierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s. Much of the scholarship produced in subsequent decades has focused on the “Krio,” descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, North America, England, and other areas of West Africa, who settled ... Read more

    $31.49 USD