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News Sierra Leone » History: The History of Sierra Leone's Struggle for Independence From Britain

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/history-sierra-leones-struggle-independence-010000702.html

Published on: Thursday 14 April 2022

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 27, 2022, Sierra Leone marks its 61st year of independence from Great Britain, and celebrations are set to take place ...

News Sierra Leone » History: Sierra Leone marks end of important chapter in returnee history

News channel or source: https://www.unhcr.org/news/sierra-leone-marks-end-important-chapter-returnee-history

Published on: Thursday 08 August 2002

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 ...

News Sierra Leone » History: From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?

News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-do-these-sierra-leone-developments-tell-us-about-urban-elites-233714

Published on: Thursday 02 January 2025

Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people from across ...

News Sierra Leone » History: Review article : Sierra Leone Creoles, their history and historians

News channel or source: https://www.si.edu/object/review-article-sierra-leone-creoles-their-history-and-historians:siris_sil_914502

Published on: Saturday 27 September 2025

Critique of Leo Spitzer's The Creoles of Sierra Leone : responses to colonialism, 1870-1945 (Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1974). https://siris-libraries ...

News Sierra Leone » History: The Krio of Sierra Leone : an interpretive history / Akintola Wyse

News channel or source: https://www.si.edu/object/krio-sierra-leone-interpretive-history-akintola-wyse:siris_sil_370517

Published on: Tuesday 05 August 2025

First published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co., in association with the International African Institute, 1989. siris_sil_370517 ...

News Sierra Leone » History: The Teenage Miner, the Village and the 709-Carat Diamond That Changed Everything

News channel or source: https://time.com/5368633/sierra-leone-peace-diamond/

Published on: Thursday 16 August 2018

Follow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Komba Johnbull, photographed at his home in Freetown in March, found the ...