41. Sierra Leone Breaking News culture. http://www.einnews.com/sierraleone/topsites/index.php3?cat=5012

42. Sierra Leone Breaking News Society culture. http://www.einnews.com/sierraleone/topsites/index.php3?cat=5045

43. USAID /Sierra Leone/Transition Initiatives: 2002 Elections Peaceful, Considered democratic culture. USAIDsponsored International Foundation for Electoral Systems(IFES) played an important role in helping the Government of sierra leone http://www.usaid.gov/gn/sierraleone/news/020620_elections/

Elections in Sierra Leone Considered a success A peaceful election process gives Sierra Leoneans hope of peace, reconciliation, and the opportunity to build a truly democratic culture. Election Day and the campaign that preceded it were marked by a near total lack of violence. The hundreds of thousands of Sierra Leoneans who cast ballots on May 14 can now begin to realize their aspirations of peace, reconciliation and the opportunity to build a truly democratic culture. The hope is that diamonds, which once feuled the rebel war, can now provide jobs and tax revenue for Sierra Leone. IFES helped the Government overcome a number of challenges including budget shortfalls, unexpected logistic problems, registration of internally displaced persons (IDPs), registration of recently returned refugees, transfer voting procedures for IDPs and refugees, and special voting for the blind. Though not without shortcomings, the overall election process was considered a great success.

44. Untitled-3 D., University of Toronto, 1986. BYERS, Albert M. « A sierra leone Communityin Crisis A Study of culture Organization » MA, McGill University, 1969. http://www.caas.umontreal.ca/htm/pays/sierra.htm

45. IDRC COUNTRY PROFILES: Le CRDI En Sierra Leone Translate this page à l'abri des insectes Le riz est la culture vivrière la plus importante en SierraLeone, entrant pour 82 % dans la nourriture consommée par la population. http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_cntryprof.cfm?ovr_id=55&lang=f

46. IDRC COUNTRY PROFILES: Le CRDI En Sierra Leone Translate this page Le riz est la culture vivrière la plus importante en sierra leone, entrantpour 82 % dans la nourriture consommée par la population. http://www.idrc.ca/cntryprof/prn_cntryprof.cfm?ovr_id=55&lang=f

47. ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: Africa, Sierra Leone mask? Africa, sierra leone, Sande Society Mask. What individual? Why? Whatkinds of initiation ceremonies are a part of your own culture? In http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/identity/africa3.html

Africa, Sierra Leone Chuck Close James Ensor Frank Gehry Robert Gwathmey ... Ernest Whiteman Africa, Sierra Leone Discussion Questions/Activities The lines around the eyes and mouth of the face on this mask represent scarification marks. Why might Mende women want these marks on their faces? In what ways have you seen Americans decorate their faces? This mask is not a portrait of a particular woman but rather a generalized symbolic mask representing Mende womanhood. What qualities of womanhood does this mask suggest are admirable in Mende society? What qualities of inner beauty are suggested by this mask? Africa, Sierra Leone, Sande Society Mask What does this mask tell you about the personal identity of its wearer? Do you think it is considered more important for a Mende woman to fit into her cultural role or to be a unique individual? Why? What kinds of initiation ceremonies are a part of your own culture? In what ways are they similar to the Sande Society initiation? In what ways do they differ? In what way are initiations part of growing up?

48. Sierra Leone Vision 2025 Website therefore welcome your various contributions on the following areas visà-vis SierraLeone- Economy, Social, Political, Environment, culture, Technology, etc http://aith.org/vision2025/

Site Navigation Background Beyond the Launching Country Profile Implementors ... Contact Us Search Welcome to the National Long-Term Perspectives Studies (NLTPS) Website. Sierra Leone like other African countries is going through a political, economic, culture and social transition. During this period it has become even more important to go beyond the passive and reactive development practices, which characterized past development efforts and adopt a more active stance with regards to changes taking place in the world as a whole and Sierra Leone in particular. There is the need to abandon the "fire brigade attitude" which mainly responds to situations and rather adopt strategies, which anticipate events. This presupposes that Sierra Leone going beyond short-term considerations and adopt long-term which will ensure the creation of the means to face future challenges. The rationale of the National Long-Term Perspectives Studies - Sierra Leone Vision 2025 Programme is to provide Sierra Leone with the framework for planning its political, economic and social development for the next 25 years, ensuring the setting out of realistic long-term strategies and policy options in a manner that is comprehensible to all Sierra Leoneans whether at home or in the Diaspora. The creation of this website is primarily to solicit the aspirations of Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora, which is crucial to the philosophy of the NLTPS process, which is the full participation of all concerned.

49. African Language Culture sierra leone/Spain, 1998, 52 minutes. Available at Californis Newsreel (www.newsreel.org)*Karin Barber (ed) (1997) Readings in African Popular culture. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/afl/afst225.html

Fall 99: African Language and Culture Instructor: Dr. Alwiya Omar 648 Williams Hall Office hours: Mondays 4:00 to 5:00 and by appointment. Course requirements: 2 term papers Weekly discussions based on assigned readings. Guest speakers: Speakers will be invited every other week to talk about some aspect of African language and culture. First guest speaker: Dr. Leigh Swigart on multi-cultural situation in Senegal. Second guest speaker: Edda Fields, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania on language and cultaral experience in Sierra Leone and Guinea. Third guest speaker: Naima Black on Swahili Language and Culture based on her experience living in Lamu, Kenya. Fourth guest Speaker: Dr. Eugene Buckley on Ethiopic writing. Weeks 1 and 2 (Sept. 13th and 20th): * = required reading. others are recommended readings. * African Languages. Microsoft Encarta on-line article (1993-1998). Contributed by Williams E. Welmers and updated by Alwiya Omar. Greenberg (1966) The Languages of Africa. Bloomimgton: Indiana University Press. Handout 1 Weeks 3 and 4 (Sept. 27th and Oct. 4th): Multilingualism and languages in contact; Language planning in Africa; Language policies and medium of instruction in schools.

50. Letter To Kofi Annan (Human Rights Watch Letter, New York, August 16, 2000) Justice and the ending of the culture of impunity in sierra leone are of paramountimportance for the peace process and the country's overall future. http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/08/anan-ltr-0816.htm

Contribute to Human Rights Watch HOME SITEMAP SEARCH ... Human Rights Watch World Report 2000: Sierra Leone FREE Join the HRW Mailing List Principles for Justice in Sierra Leone Letter to Kofi Annan (New York, August 16, 2000) Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Human Rights Watch welcomes the commitment shown by the Security Council on August 14, 2000, to bringing the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and other serious human rights abuses in Sierra Leone to justice (S/RES/1315). The resolution has asked you to send a team of experts to Sierra Leone and to submit a report with recommendations to the Security Council within thirty days. Justice and the ending of the culture of impunity in Sierra Leone are of paramount importance for the peace process and the country's overall future. Related Material U.N. Action on Sierra Leone Court Welcomed Human Rights Watch Press Release, August 14, 2000 HRW Sierra Leone web page Human Rights Watch believes that the effectiveness of this justice effort will to a significant degree be determined by the framework for the court to be proposed by the team of experts. Human Rights Watch believes that justice and the ending of the culture of impunity in Sierra Leone are of paramount importance for the peace process and the country's overall future. A justice effort, to be meaningful and to produce lasting results, must be credible and legitimate. The criminal responsibility of all abusive parties must be assessed, including those of the RUF's former allies, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and dissident factions of the Sierra Leone Army (SLA).

51. TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents sierra leone. culture. Visit the isierra leone website for informationon sierra leone's culture and cuisine. To Country Main Page http://www.traveldocs.com/sl/culture.htm

Sierra Leone CULTURE Visit the iSierra Leone website for information on Sierra Leone's culture and cuisine. To Country Main Page To TDS Home Page Travel Document Systems Washington DC Office 925 Fifteenth Street N.W. Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20005 Voice: 1-800-874-5100 Local: 202-638-3800 Fax: 202-638-4674 support@traveldocs.com San Francisco Office One Embarcadero Center Suite 500 San Francisco CA 94111 Voice: 1-888-874-5100 Local: 415-773-2829 Fax: 415-773-2834 sfo@traveldocs.com

52. AfricaOnline.com - SIERRA LEONE UN Helicopter Crash Kills 7 Kenyan firms win top prizes in London fair sierra leone New election system gets Achronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever changing http://www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,42869.jsp

53. Christianity In 19th Century Sierra Leone boisterous Christianity with them back to Africa, defining their new culture inChristian terms, and spreading its message to all in sierra leone who would http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/SSASierraLeone.html

African Christianity Homepage Christianity in Africa South of the Sahara Protestant Christianity Christianity in 19th Century Sierra Leone Christianity in Africa South of the Sahara Homepage Roman Catholic Missions 1450-1890 Kongo Christianity Roman Catholic Missions 1890-1960 ... Protestant Missions 1700-1890 Sierra Leone Southern Africa Xhosa Interior Missions Buganda ... Zionists Sierra Leone was founded in the 1780s as a place for freed British ex-slaves to resettle in Africa. It became a British Crown Colony in 1806, the year before the slave trade was outlawed. In January of 1792, 1,200 former American slaves who had ought on the British side in the Revolutionary War, then emigrated to Nova Scotia, where they were unable to obtain land of their own, arrived in Sierra Leone and settled in Freetown. The expenses of their voyage were paid for by the British government. They had become Christians while in North America and carried their "boisterous Christianity" with them back to Africa, defining their new culture in Christian terms, and spreading its message to all in Sierra Leone who would listen. The Settlers, as the Nova Scotia Sierra Leonians came to be called, now fortified by a large influx of "Recaptives" Ð persons taken from captured slave ships and resettled in Sierra Leone grew into a large and vibrant Christian community. In the 1860s the Sierra Leonean community requested the aid of full-time missionary clergy from England. The Church in Sierra Leone was already lively and vibrant under the leadership of the wealthy and powerful Settler Christians. The missionaries sent out to minister to them were not infrequently their inferiors in knowledge of the Bible and Christian doctrine.

54. Gullah Culture By Cecile McHardy Independent Scholar Gullah culture by Cecile McHardy Independent Scholar. by the end of the 17th C Englishprivateers settled on off shore islands around sierra leone, their Afro http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/gullah.html

VISIT OUR SPONSORS EDUCATION VENDOR DIRECTORY COMMUNITY RINGLEADERS CURRICULUM CUL DE SAC AREA ... PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Lk at 4 Site Navigation Tools Search This Site Intuitive Site Map Logical Site Map Visual Site Map Topical Information About... Administrators All Mailing Lists Arts Beginner Tutorial Digital Divide Internet Literacy Linguistics Music News Headlines Online Curriculum Security Teachers Technology CONTACT US LINK TO US ABOUT US MISSION STATEMENT ... REASONS TO PLAY HERE Gullah Culture by Cecile McHardy Independent Scholar Please forgive the long preamble. To frame the issue re big lens - recommend inter alia Creolized forms of Black English found in Jamaica, Guiana, coastal areas of Georgia and South Carolina, etc carried back to West Africa - Sierra Leone Colony by 1800, middle of l9th C - Afro-American colony of Liberia; removal of Jamaican Maroons to S.Leone, the extraordinary role of fugitive slaves/Maroons incorporated into British military establishments as garrison troops in West Africa, the role of Blacks as mariners.etc. Hancock's work tells us a great deal about the historical development of these creoles but also the physical contacts between different points of Africans in diaspora. He demonstrates for eg the close link between Sranan [black English of Surinam], West African Krio=creole of Sierra Leone, Gambia, Cameroons and Gullah [Geechee].A detailed investigation of the movement of people of African descent in both directions across the atlantic and within the caribbean. Former captives settled Sierra Leone by 1800, and there was continued forced migration of Africans in the reverse direction to the southern states of the USA until 1850's. Monica Schuler's Alas Alas Poor

55. UNESCO Thesaurus: Alphabetical List Shelter USE Housing Shifting cultivation MT 6.35 Agriculture FR culture itinéranteSP Temples Sick leave USE Leave Sickness USE Diseases sierra leone MT 7.05 http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/terms/list139.htm

UNESCO Thesaurus: alphabetical list Shellfish - Slav cultures Shellfish MT 2.75 Natural sciences FR Coquillage et crustacé SP Marisco UF Crustacea Fish Aquatic animals Animals Zoology RT Marine animals Shelter USE Housing Shifting cultivation MT 6.35 Agriculture FR Culture itinérante SP Cultivo migratorio SN Temporary use of agricultural land for cultivation as long as it is fertile. Cultivation Agronomy Ship libraries USE Institutional libraries Shipbuilding MT 6.50 Manufacturing and transport engineering FR Construction navale SP Construcción naval Marine engineering Transport engineering RT Shipbuilding industry RT Ships Shipbuilding industry MT 6.40 Industry FR Industrie de la construction navale SP Industria de la construcción naval Manufacturing industry Industry RT Shipbuilding Shipping industry USE Maritime transport Ships MT 6.60 Equipment and facilities FR Navire SP Buque Vehicles Submarines RT Marine engineering RT Maritime transport RT Research ships RT Shipbuilding Short courses MT 1.40 Curriculum FR Cours de brève durée SP Curso de corta duración Educational courses RT Summer schools Short stories MT 3.40 Literature

56. Sierra Leone: War Rape And Sexual Assault Thorpe, is that there has been a breakthrough in the culture of silence on and theatregroups to discuss the sexual exploitation of sierra leone's girls and http://www.rnw.nl/humanrights/html/rape.html

Bahasa Indonesia Nederlands English Español Português Highlights: Current story: War Rape and Sexual Assault Created: 06 March 2000 "You don't understand", said the rebel. "This is the reason we go and capture you people. If you don't sleep with me today, I'll kill you." Miriam The Geneva Conventions prohibit rape in both international and internal conflicts. Rape, when committed on a mass scale, constitutes a crime against humanity. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child also protects children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. Rape and sexual assault were an integral part of the rebel strategy, according to human rights organisations. A high percentage of the rape victims was under the age of 18. Some of the girls and young women were raped in their homes, often in front of family members. Human rights organisations have also documented cases of fathers, brothers, uncles and other males being forced to rape their female relatives. But generally the victims were abducted and taken to rebel bases and command centres or into the bush. The girls and young women were raped for weeks or months on end. Many of the victims report being gang raped, sometimes by two or three men. There have been cases of women being raped by over 15 men. Rebels would often choose girls and women to become their 'wife'. According to UNICEF, studies have shown that 75% of the abducted girls and young women were sexually abused.

57. Sierra Leone: Dr. Edward Nahim, The Country's Only Psychiatrist But most of these groups don't understand the culture or what is happening. Over80% of all health facilities in sierra leone have been destroyed. http://www.rnw.nl/humanrights/html/nahim.html

Bahasa Indonesia Nederlands English Español Português Highlights: Current story: Chapters: Dr. Edward Nahim Created: 06 March 2000 Dr. Edward Nahim, Sierra Leone's only psychiatrist. He is also the director of the Sierra Leone Drug Addictions Council, SALDAC, a national charity. There is a stigma attached to mental health in all Third World countries. The idea is that once you have mental problems, you won't get better, so why spend money on you? As a result, all the mental health facilities are deteriorating. Even before the war, there were almost no more drugs, and most of the mental health personnel had retired, died or migrated overseas. Sierra Leone's war has been described as one of the most brutal wars ever fought in modern warfare. But here mental anguish is expressed differently. A European would say, 'I cannot sleep. I have nightmares.' In Sierra Leone people will say devils are tormenting them, or they talk about snakes or very dangerous objects. The symptoms are the same for a European and an African, but the terminology differs. If people believe their problem is due to juju

58. World Press Review - Africa - Congo - Sudan - Angola - Sierra Leone Unlike in Angola and sierra leone, the wars in Sudan and Congo are not In reality,southerners, black Africans who have a different culture and aspirations http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/691.cfm

Entire Site Press Country Profiles Documents World Headlines Front Page Africa Americas ... World Link TV World Press Review is a program of the Stanley Foundation. E-mail this article Printer-friendly version Subscribe to our e-newsletter Print edition From the October, 2002 of World Press Review (VOL. 49, No. 10) The Business of Ending War Africa's Peace Offensive Richard Dowden, The Observer (liberal weekly), London, England, Aug. 4, 2002 A man listens to news of the July 30 peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Kigali, July 31, 2002 (Photo: AFP). A peace deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an agreement in Sudan, the end of civil war in Angola, the withdrawal of British troops from Sierra Leone. Could it be that a wave of good will has broken out across war-prone Africa? The answer is “no,” but some of Africa’s wars have run their course, and much international effort has gone into ending others. As part of the new pact between African states and the G-8 countries, Western diplomats have been working with their African and U.N. counterparts to try to secure deals to end African conflicts. Four years ago, 15 African countries were embroiled in war. Now there are seven. And reconciliation is quickly possible among Africans. In Nigeria after the Biafra war ended in 1970, in Mozambique after the vicious war against civilians in the 1980s, and in South Africa after the 1994 election, ordinary people put away their weapons and set aside bitter memories. No one sought revenge.

59. World Press Review - Journalism - Sierra Leone Paul Kamara Freetown sierra leone For di People was established as an independent AllPeople’sCongress) monolithic system had created a culture of silence http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/476.cfm

Entire Site Press Country Profiles Documents World Headlines Front Page Africa Americas ... World Link TV World Press Review is a program of the Stanley Foundation. E-mail this article Printer-friendly version Subscribe to our e-newsletter Print edition From the October 2000 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 47, No. 10) Journalism in Sierra Leone Defending Press Freedom Paul Kamara Freetown Sierra Leone For di People was established as an independent newspaper in 1983. This was a period when the then APC (All-People’s Congress) monolithic system had created a culture of silence, and not many journalists or newspapers were bold enough to stand up for the truth and defend press freedom and political and social justice. Throughout its existence, critics both within and outside Sierra Leone have rated For di People as a consistent, fearless, and courageous newspaper. Perhaps this is because For di People answers to no party but to the people. Its consistent crusade against corruption and other societal ills is no secret, and it has always been in the forefront for the promotion of freedom and human rights in Sierra Leone. It has, therefore, paid dearly for it. Paul Kamara, the newspaper’s editor, and other senior members have been detained several times by successive regimes for exposing corruption and human-rights violations, and Kamara has been subjected to several forms of brutality. Press freedom under the government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah is far more favorable than in previous regimes, despite a few unsuccessful attempts to pass laws intended to stifle the press.

60. Browsing Regional Africa Sierra Leone Society And Culture Category Free email. yourname@uksprite.com Login or Create An Address Webmasters Add YourSite Account Login. Browse Regional Africa sierra leone Society and culture http://www.uksprite.com/search/search/Regional/Africa/Sierra_Leone/Society_and_C

/* CSS Menu highlight- By Marc Boussard (marc.boussard@syntegra.fr) Modified by DD for NS4 compatibility Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com for this script */ var ns4class='' WebSearch Low-cost advertising at UKSprite Join Login @UK.Sprite Home Latest Headlines UK Weather World Weather ... UK Travel Guide Fun TV Guide Lotto e-Greetings Mobile Fun Communicate Email Login Get Free Email Free Text Messages Lifestyle Horoscopes Dating Recipes Health Shop DVD's Books Videos More... Deals Auctions Classified Ads Site Map Browsing: Regional Africa Sierra Leone Society and Culture Top Regional Africa Sierra Leone Society and Culture Categories: Civil War Ethnologue: Sierra Leone Languages of Sierra Leone. http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Sier.html Preview This Site Focus On Sierra Leone An objective and critical analysis and commentary on major national events in Sierra Leone. http://www.focus-on-sierra-leone.co.uk/ Preview This Site Friends of Sierra Leone Friends of Sierra Leone is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 by a small group of returned Peace Corps Volunteers, soon joined by their Sierra Leonean friends and other volunteers who had served in Sierra Leone. http://www.fosalone.org/

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Page 3     41-60 of 96    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | Next 20