Sierra Leone
Facts and historical events related to Sierra Leone, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- Given that only 16% of Africa’s trade takes place between African countries, 44 nations on 21 March signed…
- Africa's 10 fastest growing economies as at November 2017. 1. Côte d’Ivoire 2. Tanzania 3. Senegal 4. Djibo…
- Queen Elizabeth II Quay in Sierra Leone is the world’s third largest natural harbour.
- Diane Konomany, Sierra Leone's Minister for Local Government & Rural Dev., at work on International Women's…
- President Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, 1979 Prime Minister - 1967-71 President - 1971-85 Retired from off…
- 2007, when the then UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was made a paramount chief in Sierra Leone.
- DNA tests show Coretta (MLK's wife) and Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington hail from the Mende of Sierra…
- Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria and Mauritania are the nations that had witnessed 6 coups. 6 coups…
- Death toll from Ebola outbreak in West Africa rose to 528 by last week Wednesday, with 398 in Guinea, 97 in…
- Sheik Umar Khan, Sierra Leone's leading Ebola physician, died after contracting the virus while treating pa… (2014)
- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean politician credited with guiding the country to peace after its civil wa… (2014)
- John Hawkins is the first English sailor to have obtained African slaves - about 300 of them in Sierra Leon…
- In 1972 Serria Leone made headlines when the world's 3rd-largest gem-quality diamond – the "Star of Sierra…
- The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002) began on 23 March 1991, and, lasting for 11 years, enveloped the cou…
- Sierra Leone has about 5 percent of the world’s diamond reserves.
- The Sierra Leone Creole descend from thousands of freed African Americans, West Indian & liberated Africans…
- Dr Martin Luther King's wife, Coretta, also shared her mitochondrial DNA with the Mende people of Sierra Le…
- Among the sub-Saharan African countries, Sierra Leone was the fastest growing country last year, according…
- “Cola,” from which Coca-Cola derives its name, is from Temme, a Niger-Congo language spoken chiefly in Sier…
- In 6th century BC, Hanno the Navigator of Ancient Carthage (Tunisia) is held to have sailed down the Africa…
- The Leopard Claw was a weapon used to imitate the large cat's claws. Known from Leopard Society, a cult in…
- In 1820 The first organized immigration of freed slaves to Africa from USA departed New York harbor on a jo…
- West African Monetary Zone(WAMZ) (Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) will introduce a c…
- Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison for aiding atrocities committe… (2012)
- Foday Sankoh, the Sierra Leonean rebel leader who founded the Revolutionary United Front and led forces dur… (2003)
- The Sierra Leone Civil War was formally declared over after eleven years of conflict, paving the way for di… (2002)
- British paratroopers launched Operation Barras in Sierra Leone, freeing six captured British soldiers and h… (2000)
- A military coup in Sierra Leone ousted elected President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and installed Major Johnny Paul… (1997)
- Forces of the Revolutionary United Front, backed by Charles Taylor's rebels, invaded Sierra Leone, sparking… (1991)
- Sierra Leone became a republic within the Commonwealth, with Siaka Stevens becoming the country's first exe… (1971)
- Sierra Leone gained independence from the United Kingdom, a date the country still celebrates as its Indepe… (1961)
- Joseph Saidu Momoh, who served as the second President of Sierra Leone from 1985 to 1992, was born (died 20… (1937)
- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who became the 3rd President of Sierra Leone, is born. (1932)
- Abioseh Nicol, the Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat celebrated as one of West Africa's lead… (1924)
- Siaka Stevens, who became the first president of Sierra Leone and ruled for nearly two decades, was born. (1905)
- Herbert Bankole-Bright, a physician and political activist who helped found Sierra Leone's first political… (1883)
- The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marked out the colonial-era territorial boundary between Guinea and Sie… (1882)
- Adelaide Casely-Hayford, a pioneering Sierra Leone Creole educator and cultural nationalist who championed… (1868)
- Paul Cuffe, the free-born Black merchant sea captain and "Back to Africa" pioneer who funded a voyage settl… (1817)