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Literature of Sierra Leone is the collection of written and spoken work,mostly fictional,from Sierra Leone. The coastal west-African country suffered a civil war from 1991 until 2002. Before the civil war,Sierra Leone had many writers contributing to its literature and since the end of the war the country has been in the process of rebuilding this literature. This is an overview of some important aspects of the literature of Sierra Leone before,during,and after the war.
The Sierra Leone Creole people are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American,Afro-Caribbean,and Liberated African slaves who settled in the Western Area of Sierra Leone between 1787 and about 1885. The colony was established by the British,supported by abolitionists,under the Sierra Leone Company as a place for freedmen. The settlers called their new settlement Freetown. Today,the Sierra Leone Creoles are 1.2 percent of the population of Sierra Leone.
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- ↑ "Dr. Abdulai Conteh Comments on Controversial Speaker Issue". 2013-11-22.
- ↑ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". Scout.org. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
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