Maria T. Lennon
When California-born war correspondent Saffron Roch discovers that she's pregnant (read: knocked-up, newly jobless, and single at thirty-eight), she decides to leave Sierra Leone and surgeon Oscar DeVries, the baby's ... [... more]
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Operation Barras: The SAS Rescue Mission: Sierra Leone ...
 As one SAS veteran put it, 'this was not a clinical, black balaclava, Princes' Gate-type operation: it was a very grubby, green operation with lots of potential for things to go wrong'... The British Army has earned a worldwide reputation for its skill ... [... more]
$9.95
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Joanne Taylor
Joanne Taylor was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1952, and was raised in Cape Breton, the third of ten children. She met her husband, Robin, while teaching with CUSO in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Joanne wrote occasionally for CBC ... [... more]
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Chimps Deserve Human Rights, Group Says
Activists want to ensure the apes don't wind up homeless if the shelter closes. Both have already suffered: They were captured as babies in Sierra Leone in 1982 and smuggled in a crate to Austria for use in pharmaceutical experiments. Customs ... [... more]
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Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century: ...
Sierra Leone's current predicament can best be understood within a continuum spanning its precolonial to its more contemporary history. This study traces the contradictions of the historical legacy and the excesses of the independent nation-state to ... [... more]
$26.95
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The Krio of Sierra Leone: An Interpretive History
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$24.95
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Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone: A Case History of ...
Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone, is an important piece of scholarship that documents the richness and diversity of African history. This study not only documents the cost of artificially drawn borders in human terms, but it also provides a case study in ... [... more]
$42.95
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Mountain of the Lion: The Great Revival in Sierra Leone, ...
A great non-fiction book that reads like a novel. This book provides more information and insight on the daily life and culture of the people of Sierra Leone than anything else in print. Its descriptions of the terrain, climate, economy, and politics ... [... more]
$9.99
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A Mother's Saga: An Account of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone
In March 1991, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels waged a ruthless war on Sierra Leone, which was to last for a decade characterized by the worst forms of crimes against humanity. A single mother took a dreadful journey in a heroic effort to ... [... more]
$19.95
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Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone
This book provides a history of the last ten years of Sierra Leone, including a new and insightful discussion of the Sierra Leonean war which questions the assumption that it is taking place between two parties and suggests instead that there are various ... [... more]
$65.00
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Education in Sierra Leone: Present Challenges, Future ...
Aimed at policymakers and practitioners, this book uses the latest census and survey data to reveal the abiding costs of education to individual households. It goes on to suggest a sustainable, long-term strategy for the education system in Sierra Leone ... [... more]
$25.00
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Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra leone Civil War ...
This is the most authoritative study of the Sierra Leone civil war to emanate from Africa, or indeed any publications' programme on Africa. It explores the genesis of the crisis, the contradictory roles of different internal and external actors, civil ... [... more]
$29.95
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