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Freetown: The Original Sin
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By Dr. Vandy Kanyako, Portland, USA
“Land” played a critical role in the founding and shaping (literally) of modern Freetown. The first set of settlers from Europe, North America and the Caribbean were lured to what is now Freetown with the promise of “free land”.
Right from the outset, however, due to a confluence of factors, this highly desirable immobile asset proved to be an explosive issue that soon pitted the new arrivals, the Koya Temne and the British authorities against one another. The history of modern Freetown and by extension, Sierra Leone, will therefore be incomplete without understanding the intractable nature and dynamics of land and its linkages to class, privilege, politics and social conflicts. ....

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