The History of Sierra Leone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3913336 |
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| Authors | Christopher Fyfe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The history of Sierra Leone, A B C Sibthorpe, 1971 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/217535 |
| OpenAlex | W2075523788 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This scholarly narrative focuses on the evolution of the Creole community of Sierra Leone and relates it to the surrounding peoples. Since it first appeared in 1962, the work has been acknowledged as one of the outstanding contributions to the history of West Africa
Art · Creole language · Ethnology · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Sierra leone · Sociology · Work (physics · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Engineering · History · Philosophy
Chiefs
"A "Disgrace to the very Colour
The making of scientific knowledge in an age of slavery
Two types of language contact involving English Creoles
Prelude to the Legal Profession in Lagos 1861–1880
Prelude to African Christian Independency
Historical Dictionary of Liberia (review)
A Companion to African Philosophy
Black Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Slave Trade Interventionism
An African Middle Class
Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence
Angola and Mozambique, 1870–1905
The Distinctiveness of British Abolitionist Mobilization
Freed slave colonies in West Africa
The White Ensign on Land
West Africa in the anti-slave trade era
Africa on the Eve of Partition
French Congo and Gabon 1886–1905
Relations With Africa
East Africa 1870–1905
Madagascar and France, 1870–1905
The Theory and Practice of Informal Empire
Towards the Definition of a Native Policy for British Africa
Western Africa, 1886–1905
Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks
The literature of slavery and abolition
Western Africa, 1870–1886
Temne and Eskimo Perceptual Skills
Energy justice for all? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone
The Politics of Ritual Secrecy
Christianity in Africa
King Leopold's Congo, 1886–1908
The European Scramble and Conquest in African History
The European Partition of Africa
Stuff Happens, and People Make it Happen
Official and unofficial attitudes and policy towards Krio as the main lingua franca in Sierra Leone
Constitutional Development and Ethnic Entrepreneurism in Sierra Leone
The Last Resort
Palimpsest Memoryscapes
African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape
The Children of Africa in the Colonies
African Print Cultures
Culture and classification
Gendered Self-Fashioning
Bread and Arsenic
Origins of Church Missionary Society Accommodation to Imperial Policy
Biography and the Debate about Imperialism
Africanism
The Chiefs of Community Policing in Rural Sierra Leone
Transatlantic Discontinuity? The Clapham Sect's Influence in the United States
Agency, Race, and Christianity in the Strange Career of Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce
Orishatukeh Faduma and the New Theology
Antiguan Methodism and Antislavery Activity
From Hill Station (Freetown) to Downtown Conakry (First Ward)
Scarification and identity in the liberated Africans department register, 1814-1815
Islam and Education in the Colony and Hinterland of Sierra Leone (1750-1914)
Mbwoolo Sculpture of the Yaka
The Kaba Sloht
Bamum Village Masks
The recently found Map of the World (Kunyutu 坤輿圖)
Christianity, Colonialism, and Communications in Sub-Saharan Africa
Defining the “flesh” of the black soldier in colonial Sierra Leone
The Search for Independence
Agriculture in Liberia During the Nineteenth Century
Legitimate Commerce and Statecraft
Deforestation
State Decay and Civil War
Freedom's Prisons
Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa - What's in a Name
Of Africa's brightest ornaments
The Black Mystique
Confronting the Past
El legado cultural de Sierra Leona en Bioko. Comparativa de dos espacios de criollización africana
Legitimacy and the Politics of Status
Conflicts of customary land tenure in rural Africa
The Sierra Leone Hinterland and the Provisioning of Early Freetown, 1792-1803
Subjected words
A state of infancy’
Imperial fictions
The status of Muslims in Sierra Leone and Liberia
The British, Persecuted Foreigners and the Emergence of the Refugee Category in Nineteenth-Century Britain
African ‘recaptives’ under apprenticeship in the British West Indies 1807–1828
Global and local models of governance in interaction
A State of Underdevelopment
Background to rebellion
African‐American aspirations and the settlement of Liberia
Colonizing the Black Atlantic
In search of the invisible
Social Control and the Colonial State
Friendly societies in the Bahamas 1834–1910
Do dady nor lef me make dem carry me’
Race and rank in the British army in the twentieth century
Flutuações semânticas no mundo atlântico
Perceptions of Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor on his death (September 1912)
African energy poverty
Navigating the intergenerational divide? Youth, artisanal diamond mining, and social transformation in Sierra Leone
Nineteenth-Century Royal Navy Sailors from Africa and the African Diaspora
Paying for stories of impairment – parasitic or ethical? Reflections undertaking anthropological research in post-conflict Sierra Leone
British freedoms
| Highly cited | No |
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