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This "Web Sites, Books, Films" section has an
extensive list of webs, books, and films on or about Sierra Leone and
related subjects. It is one of the most complete of its type on
the Internet. If you would like to suggest an addition, please
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General Web Sites
Some of the Web sites below also
appear in other sections in this "Webs, Books, Films" section of
www.SLPP.org. For example, if you want
to see specific topics, see "History," "Maps,"
Culture," etc. as listed in the left column.
Cry Freetown Web Site. This Web site
is a companion for the award-winning documentary by the same name (see "Cry Freetown" video). The Web site has a
brief history of Sierra Leone, an interview
with the director of the video, and an online store. The site is based in London.
http://www.cryfreetown.org
Culture
of Sierra Leone.
http://www.sierra-leone.org/culture.html
Development
Through Radio Project
On the Development Through Radio Project in Sierra Leone.
"The project [of the Forum of Conscience, in Freetown which] gives 30 women’s
groups access to policy makers and the wider development aid community through airing
their concerns and aspirations on national radio." Has case studies from war victims,
discussions on Reparations and Testimonials from the community on a variety of topics and
issues. On Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Forum Of Conscience
(FOC), a Sierra Leone based human rights organization. Has a survey of women’s radio
listening patterns in Sierra Leone. See also Mercy Wambui, 2003
Reuters Digital Visions Fellow at Stanford University. [KF]
http://www.dtronline.org/index.html
Diamond Mercenaries of
Africa
Report, August 1996, by the Australian
Broadcasting Corp. on Executive Outcomes, a South African-based company supplying
mercenaries to mining companies in Sierra Leone.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s10759.htm
Discuss & Reflect on National Issues.
Discuss
and reflect on Sierra Leone national issues at this web site developed by
John Leigh, former Sierra Leone Ambassador to the U.S. and former candidate
for President.
www.bintumani.com
Documents
about Sierra Leone.
Important documents—speeches, government
agreements, etc.
http://www.sierra-leone.org/documents.html
Expo
Times
"Published fortnightly, with regular news
updates between issues." Electronic version of a former print newspaper in Sierra
Leone which was forced to close due to the war. Now published on-line and in print from
France and the U.K. Publisher and Ibrahim Seaga Shaw. Has links to Sierra Leone sites,
community pages.
http://www.expotimes.net/
Female Genital Mutilation
Some
of these pages are difficult to look at, but these three Web sites do a good job
of covering what is a widespread problem of profound consequence to most
cultures throughout Africa and is life changing to the great majority of most
women in Africa.
http://www.fgmnetwork.org/Lightfoot-klein/prisonersofritual.htm. "Prisoners
of Ritual: Some Contemporary Developments in the History of Female Genital
Mutilation" by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein,
a "paper presented at the Second
International Symposium on Circumcision in
San Francisco,
April 30-May
3, 1991. 5000 w.
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;102/1/153.
"Female Genital Mutilation."
American
Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Bioethics,
Policy Statement. Pediatrics,
Vol. 102, No. 1, July 1998, pp. 153-156.
"Abstract": "The traditional custom of ritual cutting and alteration of the
genitalia of female infants, girls, and adolescents...persists....
Immigrants...may [also] have
daughters who have undergone a ritual genital procedure or may
request that such a procedure be performed…." 2000 w.
(WARNING:
GRAPHIC DRAWINGS).
http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_cirm.htm.
(Viewpoint
from Islamic beliefs.) "Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM) in Africa , the Middle East
& Far East " by B.A. Robinson. "FGM
is a social custom, not a religious practice. However, in those Muslim countries
where it is practiced, FGM is often justified by a controversial saying
attributed to the Prophet Mohammed that seems to favor sunna circumcision....
Even if true, it only permits the practice; it does not mandate it."
1600 w.
Friends
of Sierra Leone--Peace Corps
A nonprofit site developed by
former Peace Corps volunteers in Sierra Leone; membership by Sierra Leoneans, other
volunteers, and all interested persons encouraged.
http://www.fosalone.org/
Focus on Sierra Leone
"On-line
newsletter reporting and analysing political and social events in Sierra Leone." Editor is Ambrose Ganda. Articles date
from 2001 and earlier.
http://www.focus-on-sierra-leone.co.uk/
Global Policy Forum - Sierra Leone
Has full text U.N. resolutions, reports,
journal and newspapers articles, covering 1998 to date, and a link to the Sandline
Report - UK Select Committee on Foreign Affairs (1999) - "A UK government report
on the 'Sandline Affair', which saw the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office implicated
in a Sierra Leone arms trafficking scandal." The Forum, in New York City, seeks to
make the U.N. more responsive to citizen concerns.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/slindex.htm
News Archives about Sierra Leone
News articles and press releases,
1994-2003.
http://www.sierra-leone.org/slnews2.html
Radio Broadcasts in Sierra Leone
Talking Drum Studios produces
programs for over twenty Sierra Leone radio stations.
www.talkingdrumstudio.org
Sierra
Leone Government
(1)
Official site with news from the Sierra Leone
News Agency (SLENA).
http://www.sierraleone.gov.sl/
Sierra Leone Government (2)
Sierra Leone State House Online.
http://www.statehouse-sl.org/
Sierra Leone
Writers Series
“Books Database.” Nearly
400 records of books in some way related to Sierra Leone, directly or indirectly.
http://www.sl-writers-series.org/publications/slwsbooksdata.asp
Truth and
Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, Final Report
www.trcsierraleong.org
What
the Fighters Say, A Survey of Ex-Combatants in Sierra Leone
By Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein,
June-August 2003. Interim Report:
July 2004. On the web site of Macartan Humphreys, Assistant Professor of political
science, Columbia University, in the section on Papers on Civil Conflict. [KF]
http://www.columbia.edu/~mh2245/
Women Waging Peace
(Cambridge, Massachusetts.) "Women Waging Peace advocates
for the full participation of women in formal and informal peace processes around the
world." See the Africa
section with case studies: From Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra
Leone and Strengthening Governance: The Role of Women in Rwanda's
Transition. Profiles of African
Women Peace Builders. Other reports: Policy
Commission Case Study—Negotiating the Transition to Democracy and Reforming the
Security Sector: Vital Contributions of South African Women. Directory of African Women's peace building
organizations. [KF]
http://www.womenwagingpeace.net/content/regions/africa.asp
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Main Web Sites
with Links to Sierra Leone Information
Most Recent and Best Statistics on
Sierra Leone from the U.S. Department of State:
http://www.state.gov/r/
pa/ei/bgn/5475.htm
United Nations Information about Sierra
Leone Updated Yearly:
Sierra
Leone Encyclopedia -
http://www.daco-sl.org/encyclopedia/
Final Report of the "Truth and Reconciliation
Commission" of Sierra Leone:
www.trcsierraleone.org
allAfrica.com
Links to daily and weekly news sources online.
http://allafrica.com
and http://allafrica.com/westafrica/
BBC News--Africa
and
BBC News--Freetown
Daily articles, past and present,
on Africa. To see Sierra Leone articles, type "Sierra Leone" into the
blank search box.
BBC News--Africa: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
africa/default.stm BBC News -Sierra Leone: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/
hi/africa/3189299.stm
The Brighter Tomorrow for Africa Foundation
This charitable
foundation improves the lives of women and children in Sierra Leone through financial support
of five small, community-based
organizations.
http://brighterafrica.org
CIA Factbook
"Sierra Leone" in the CIA
World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/
publications/
factbook/geos/sl.html
Human Rights Watch--Sierra Leone
Includes human rights issues,
links, and background about the country.
http://www.hrw.org/
doc?t=africa&c=sierra.
Kailahun District--Updated
Information (the district of two of the three SLPP villages)
See where the district is on a Sierra Leone map; then
survey basic information and details about this district.
http://www.dacosl.org/
encyclopedia/2_data/
2_2d_kn.htm
Midwives on Missions
of Service (MOMS)
Find out how this American volunteer
organization is successfully training midwives to handle their own villages'
birthing events, and get a feel for a village in the same district of Sierra
Leone where two of the SLPP's three villages lie.
www.globalmidwives.org/
sierraleone1.html
Millennium Village Project
Go to this site to see a video update of the Millennium
Village Project from Jeffrey Sachs, the world-renowned Third World economist. Then,
under his picture, click on the "MVP" link, where you can see another brief
video on agriculture in an MVP village, articles about MVP, and the MVP Annual
Report.
http://www.earth.columbia.
edu/e-newsletter/index.html
One--The Campaign To Make Poverty History
This is a good starter site
for developing your own interest in global poverty, its consequences, and methods of
stopping it. The program has over two million members with supporting groups that
include Oxfam, Save the Children, Care USA, International Medical Core, United Nations
Foundation, a number of religious organizations, and many others.
http://www.one.org/
Sierra
Leone--Africa
South of the Sahara
Excellent list of resources, esp.
for online news articles and documents of governments and international agencies.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/
depts/ssrg/africa/sierra.html.
Sierra
Leone Encyclopedia--updated yearly
Excellent information on both basics and details of many
aspects of Sierra Leone development. A core project of the Sierra Leone Information
System, which is supported by the United Nations Development Program.
http://www.daco-sl.org/
encyclopedia/
Sierra Leone Newspapers
Online
This page provides direct links to online newspapers--or
online versions of published newspapers--in Sierra Leone.
http://www.newspaperindex.
com/
en/newspapers/Sierra+Leone
Sierra Leone Web
http://www.sierra-leone.org.
A very thorough and regularly updated Web site, apparently nonprofit, about
Sierra
Leone. Its Web links page is at http://www.sierra-leone.org/
links.html.
Sierra Leone Imagine
A somewhat rough, unpolished site,
but with a variety of information. http://www.sierra-leone.info
Trust Africa
"A new African foundation that
promotes peace, economic prosperity, and social justice throughout the continent"
funded by the Ford Foundation.
http://www.trustafrica.org/
University
of Pennsylvania Sierra Leone Page and Search Engine
Links to the CIA World Factbook, maps, travel,
language information, etc. Created by Julie Sisskind, now maintained by Ali Dinar. UPenn
has a search facility. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/
African_Studies/
Country_Specific/
S_Leone.html
U.S. Dept. of State
Background Note: Sierra Leone, U.S.
Department of State
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/
ei/bgn/5475.htm
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