Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone: A Case History of Twentieth-Century Migration and Settlement among the Kissi of Koindu, Vol. 140 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone, documents the richness and diversity of African history. This study not only documents the cost of artificially drawn borders in human terms, but it also provides a case study in the discrimination of a people by other groups or the government, for one reason or another. The author takes his readers through the complex processes leading to the defining of the borders of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. The role of the Fulbe in the establishment of Koindu as a modern market town is fascinating. Fulbe traders also contributed to the improvement of the social life and the conversion of Kissis to Islam. Despite the role of the Fulbe in Koindu they are still considered "strangers" in Sierra Leone.
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Sierra Leone-born Bah (African history, College of Charleston) serves as a guide to the complex processes which led to the post-colonial defining of the borders of his native land as well as Liberia and Guinea. His case study of the Fulbe people (who contributed considerably to the crossroads town of Koindu) addresses the discrimination that bedevils artificially drawn borders. A bibliographical essay, oral sources, sample oral interviews, maps and photos are appended. The bibliography includes archival sources. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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