الحركة الوطنية في سيراليون 1898-1961

الملخص EN

Sierra Leone is a country whose history has not been given the extensive exploration it deserves.

this land was home to slave ports that supplied plantations, in the Americas and west indies, with the human shipping needed to sustain the transatlantic slave trade.

at the end of the slave trade, the British abolitionists chose sierra Leone as a place to restore settlement of free slaves began with the arrival of the first batch from London in 1787, free Africans who fought alongside the British in the American revolutionary wars, and five years later in 1792 the maroons, rebellious African slaves in Jamaica, were also deported to sierra Leone via nova scotia, and these groups that settled in Freetown were called creoles.

the colonial countries worked over the years to draw the borders of African countries, and to set barriers according to the interests of the major powers in their balance.

the national movement grew clearly among the youth and workers, as 1937 witnessed the birth of the sierra Leone youth league, and the second world war was almost over, until the African countries recovered from its slumber and rose from its repression, thanks to the spread of political awareness, the high rate of education, and the return of recruits from the battlefields, imbued with modern ideas, the tide of development rose sharply, and waves of liberation ran across most parts of the African continent, and sierra Leone was not far from being affected by it.

1961 from colonialism to the national elite.