Written by Hadi Bah, @hadiba On Twitter    Saturday, 18 May 2013 09:36    PDF Print E-mail
Pioneer of Pan-Africanism is buried at Racecourse Cemetery
Edward Wilmot Blyden, diplomat, scholar, statesman and the man whose ideas were emulated by later pan-Africanists and America’s Civil Rights leaders is buried at Freetown’s Racecourse Cemetery.
 
Written by Hadi Bah, @hadiba On Twitter    Friday, 17 May 2013 16:29    PDF Print E-mail
Fruit’s abundance cries out for some preservation in Sierra Leone
They are a cross between bright yellow and red when ripe. They are juicy and fleshy.
 
Written by Hadi Bah, @hadiba On Twitter    Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:56    PDF Print E-mail
English abolitionist favored ancient form of government for Sierra Leone settlement
Frankpledge, a system of government popular in Middle Ages England and ancient Israel was what Granville Sharp, the English abolitionist and namesake of the first settlement for freed slaves in Sierra Leone