SIERRA LEONE RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

African Studies Center - University of Pennsylvania
School of Arts & Sciences, 255 South 36th Street, 647 Williams Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Tel: (215) 898-6971; Fax (215) 573-7379; E-mail: africa@sas.upenn.edu
Recognized as a vital and forward-looking center where researchers, students and cultural and business entities come to gain knowledge of contemporary and historical Africa, the Center coordinates a wide range of course offerings in anthropology, demography, economics, history, language, literature, politics, religion, and sociology.

Friends of Sierra Leone (FoSL)   
Strives to educate Americans and those in other countries about Sierra Leone's peoples, cultures and history and advocate for legislation favorable to Sierra Leone's interests. The FoSL also supports small-scale development and relief projects in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone Web 
News and information about Sierra Leone. 

Statistics Sierra Leone 
The mission of the Statistics Sierra Leone is to coordinate, collect, compile, analyze and disseminate high quality and objective official statistics to assist informed decision-making, and discussion within the government, business and the media, as well as the wider national and international community. 

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency - The World FactBook 

BOOKS

Abdullah, Ibrahim (2004). Between Democracy And Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War. Codesria.

Conteh-Morgan, Earl et. al. (1999). Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century: History, Politics, and Society. Peter Lang Publishing.  A complete and concise study of Sierra Leone's political history from precolonial times up to and including the political convulsions of the late 1990s.

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