Sierra Leone

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting...
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Blood Diamonds: Tracing The Deadly Path Of The World's Most Precious Stones
Greg Campbell Basic Books Basic Books
First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New...
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A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF And the Destruction of Sierra Leone
Lansana Gberie Indiana University Press Indiana University Press
"Provides important insider information concerning Sierra Leone’s recent war . . . and builds on [the author’s] established reputation as an insightful and courageous journalist." —William Reno, Northwestern University A Dirty War in West Africa...
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Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth, & Resources in Sierra Leone (African Issues Series)
Paul Richards Heinemann Heinemann
This important book addresses several misconceptions about war, youth, and resources in Sierra Leone. Paul Richards argues that the war in Sierra Leone and other small wars in Africa do not manifest a "new barbarism." What appears as random,...
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Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra leone Civil War (Codesria Book)
Codesria Codesria
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,...
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The Economist's Tale: A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank
Peter Griffiths Zed Books Zed Books
What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this day-by-day account of a mission he undertook...
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Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century: History, Politics, and Society
Earl Conteh-Morgan, Mac Dixon-Fyle Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing
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...
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Black Man's Grave: Letters From Sierra Leone
Stewart Cold Run Books Cold Run Books
The memoir and the movie have only scratched the surface. Black Man's Grave tells what happened to place the boy-turned-soldier in jeopardy and why Sierra Leone's diamonds acquired their bloody tinge. Meet the greedy politicians who hijacked a...
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The Devil That Danced on the Water
Aminatta Forna HarperCollins Publishers Ltd HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone
David Keen Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan
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...
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