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Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau
by Adekeye Adebajo (Lynne Rienner, 2002)
This is a study of regional peace building efforts. After discussing the political, economic, and security contexts of West Africa since independence, Adebajo assesses the domestic and external dynamics of the three conflicts and examines the roles and motivations of the full range of actors.
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The Future in the Past by Franklyn Koloko (iUniverse.com, 2005)
Strikingly candid portrait of a poor rural boy who rose from a traditionally uneducated polygamous family in the backwaters of Rogbane village in Sierra Leone, to the highest echelons in academia.
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Green Oranges on Lion Mountain: The accidental optimist by Emily Joy (Eye Books, 2004)
The author leaves behind her comfortable life as a GP in York and heads off for two years to a remote hospital in Sierra Leone. There she finds the oranges are green, the bananas are black and her patients are really ill. There's no water, no electricity, no oxygen, no amputation saw and Dr. Em is no surgeon. And then, to top it all, the rebels invade!
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Lion Mountain: A perilous evolution of the dens by Kabba Karamoh (uPublish.com, 2003)
Story of an obdurate and powerful chief and veteran of tribal wars, who throws down the gauntlet to flout the authority of a white Governor who has ordered a new tax. A stand off between the Chief and Governor leads to a war of nerves that blossoms into a contest of war. This powerfully written book contains history, social anthropology, political science and literature.
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Moses, Citizen & Me by Delia Jarrett-Macauley (Granta Books, 2005)
When Julia flies in to war-scarred Sierra Leone from London, she is apprehensive about seeing her uncle Moses for the first time in twenty years. But nothing could have prepared her for her encounter with her eight-year-old cousin, Citizen, a former child soldier, and for the shocking truth of what he has done.
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A Mother’s Saga: An account of the rebel war in Sierra Leone by Kabba Karamoh (uPublish.com, 2003)
A memoir of the decade-long rebel conflict in Sierra Leone. The author is a native of Peyima Kamara Chiefdom of the Kono District, of Sierra Leone.
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Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the struggle for democracy by John L Hirsch (Lynne Rienner, 2000)
Hirsch traces Sierra Leone's downward spiral, drawing on his first-hand experience as US ambassador in Freetown 1995-1998. Hirsch analyses the historical, social and economic contexts of the ongoing struggle, as well as the impacts of regional and international powers.
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Silver Rain and Blizzard: Poems: Angelic flames by Roland Bankole Marke (Publish America, 2005)
A book of poetry from the gifted Sierra Leonean writer, who attempts to wrestle with the harsh realities human ingenuity often faces.
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