On April 27, 2022, Sierra Leone marks its 61st year of independence from Great Britain, and celebrations are set to take place across the country. But, the path to independence wasn’t a glamorous one, ...

AFA copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and ...

To know where you're going in life, you must understand where you came from. As an African American woman, that statement would have once caused me discomfort because of the Transatlantic slave trade, ...

Decades after independence, colonial-era laws have created a mass-incarceration crisis in Sierra Leone as poor citizens are thrown into prison for the smallest offenses. A few summers ago, I met a ...