FREETOWN (Reuters) - Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of ...

Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, is widely known as the home of formerly enslaved people – hence its name. Founded in 1787, thousands of enslaved people were either returned to or liberated in ...

First published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co., in association with the International African Institute, 1989. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers / Series 5: ...

Sept 8 (Reuters) - Sierra Leoneans vote on Saturday in a second-round runoff to choose their president, the first elections since a U.N. peacekeeping force left the war-shattered West African country ...