Sierra Leone
Websites
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Cry Freetown
www.cryfreetown.org/
Contains an interview with the acclaimed filmmaker Sorious Samura and lots of information on the history of Sierra Leone.
Mano Vision
www.manovision.com
UK-based general interest magazine designed to attract a readership among the diaspora of West Africa, in particular that of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia and Guinea.
Roland Bankole Marke
www.sierra-leone.org/poetry-rolandmarke.html
On this page you can read some poems by Marke, a published writer from Sierra Leone who now lives in the USA.
Sierra Leone – You must be joking?
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/
0,,10325-1900061,00.html
Four years ago the country was a war zone. Now Freetown is sparkling again. Times article that looks at the tourism that is now once again a part of Sierra Leone.
SierraLeoneLive.com
www.salonelive.com/sll/home/
Community website that links Sierra Leoneans around the world and has news, music and forums.
Sierra Leone Club
www.leoneclub.com
Online club for all people from Sierra Leone living abroad. This is a community site where you can leave posts, support other Sierra Leoneans and check out what’s happening in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone Photos
www.sierra-leone.org/photos.html
A nice range of photos of Sierra Leone taken by different individuals over the years.
Sierra Leone Web
www.sierra-leone.org
Has photographs of the country in peace and in war, an archive of key documents relating to the country and its laws, plus an extensive links page. There is also a Culture page featuring poets and writers from Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leonean Writers Series
www.sl-writers-series.org/
Launched in 2001 to address the scarcity of books in Sierra Leone, SLWS is a publisher based in Freetown that will publish writers of Sierra Leonean descent from around the world. The website has lots of books and poetry reviews.
Visit Sierra Leone
http://visitsierraleone.org/
Comprehensive visitors’ guide to Sierra Leone with maps, history of the country, a very active forum, plus the usual useful tourist information.
