Sierra Leone
The British established a colony at Freetown in 1787 for slaves returning to Africa from GreatBritain and the United States and for slaves rescued from shipwrecks. The land of originalsettlement, where the city later developed, was purchased from local chiefs. The Sierra Leone Company, formed in 1791, administered the settlement until 1808, when itbecame a crown colony. Britain set up a protectorate over the hinterland of Freetown in 1896. TheBritish were relatively nice towards the people of Sierra Leone. While they provided what theycould for the colony, they also illegally smuggled the nation's diamonds to other countries. Thefirst elections for the legislative council were held under the constitution of 1924. In 1950 theNational Council of Sierra Leone was formed by the Creole (Krio) elite with the purpose ofpreserving and continuing the elevated status that the Krios enjoyed in the country. One year laterMilton Margai helped form the Sierra Leone People's Party (Harris pg. 247). The ministerialsystem was introduced in 1953, and Sir Milton Margai, a former physician and leader of the SierraLeone People's Party (SLPP), was appointed chief minister in 1954 and prime minister in 1960
In 1994 he endorsed a two-year transition to multiparty democracy,with elections scheduled for 1996. Sierra Leone at the End of teh Twentieth Century: History, Politics, and Society. Sierra Leone has had the exact same governmental setup for amajority of its independent existence yet, there has never been a violent uprising of the magnitudeof the RUF's January 1999 assault. Once again, one might ask: whateffect does this have on Sierra Leone's current situation? One could argue that this does not unitethe country. The Statesman's Yearbook: The Politics, Culture and Economics of the World. A new constitution providing for a multiparty system was adopted in September. MacGregor-Hastie also points tothe governmental setup of the country. Beginning with Albert Margai, andextending into the eighties, every Sierra Leonean leader has been a dictator. Bibliography Alie, J (1990). The country was subdivided into the chiefdoms that wereruled by locally chosen paramount chiefs. These traders limited therole of the local upper-class as well as not affording native Sierra Leonean traders the chance to domuch more than petty trading (Mukonoweshero pg. Early in1991 guerrillas spilling over from the Liberian civil war captured several towns near the Liberianborder; Guinea and Nigeria supplied military aid to the Sierra Leone government to contain thethreat.
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