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Book The Caulkers of Sierra Leone

Download or read book The Caulkers of Sierra Leone written by Imodale Caulker-Burnett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imodale Caulker-Burnett, seen here with the Staff of Office of the newlyly crowned Chief of Kagboro Chiefdom, Rev. Doris Lega Caulker Gbabior II (2010), was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. She was the first child of Richard and Olivette Kelfa-Caulker, and the third grandchild of George and Lulu Caulker of Mambo, Kagboro Chiefdom. She is a retired Certified Family Nurse Practioner, Healing Touch Practioner, and Substance Abuse Consultant. She has also been a piano teacher and assistant organist. She was educated at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, - Masters Degree in Nursing Education (1985). New York Hospital, Cornell University, - Certificate as a Family Nurse Practitioner (1973). Presbytarian Hospital School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York - BS Nursing (1965) Otterbein College Westerville, Ohio - BS Zoology (1963)Annie Walsh Memorial School, Freetown, Sierra Leone. 1957) She worked as a staff nurse in the Presbytarian Hospital, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Family Care Group Practice, in St Luke's hospital, and Substance Abuse Consultant, at the Medical College of Virginia. In 1999, with the help of two cousins, she founded the Caulker Descendants Association, US. Annual reunions are now held where members meet new aunts, uncles, and cousins, learn about family history, try to learn the tribal language (Sherbro) and just have fun as a family. Since her retirement in 2003, she has gone home to Sierra Leone annually to oversee the work of her Community Development Organization - Lesana, which is working on development and rehabilitation of her father's birth place, Mambo Town, Mambo Section, Kagboro Chiefdom, Moyamba District. She lives in Richmond Virginia, with her husband Clive Burnett.

Book Sierra Leone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katrina Manson
  • Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781841622224
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Sierra Leone written by Katrina Manson and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel Guide.

Book Mission Work in Sierra Leone  West Africa

Download or read book Mission Work in Sierra Leone West Africa written by Job Smith Mills and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amazing Grace in John Newton

Download or read book Amazing Grace in John Newton written by William E. Phipps and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Amazing Grace," the best-loved of all hymns, John Newton's allusions to the drama of his life tell the story of a youth who was a virtual slave in Sierra Leone before ironically becoming a slave trader himself. Liverpool, his home port, was the center of the most colossal, lucrative, and inhumane slave trade the world has ever known. A gradual spiritual awakening transformed Newton into an ardent evangelist and antislavery activist.Influenced by Methodists George Whitefield and John Wesley, Newton became prominent among those favoring a Methodist-style revival in the Church of England. This movement stressed personal conversion, simple worship, emotional enthusiasm, and social justice. While pastor of a poor flock in Olney, he and poet William Cowper produced a hymnal containing such perennial favorites as "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" and "God Moves in a Mysterious Way." Later, while serving a church in London, Newton raised British consciousness on the immorality of the slave trade. The account he gave to Parliament of the atrocities he had witnessed helped William Wilberforce obtain legislation to abolish the slave trade in England.Newton's life story convinced many who are "found" after being "lost" to sing Gospel hymns as they lobbied for civil rights legislation. His close involvement with both capitalism and evangelicalism, the main economic and religious forces of his era, provide a fascinating case study of the relationship of Christians to their social environment. In an afterword on Newtonian Christianity, Phipps explains Newton's critique of Karl Marx's thesis that religious ideals are always the effect of what produces the most profit. Phipps relies on accountsNewton gives in his ship journal, diary, letters, and sermons for this most readable scholarly narrative.

Book The History of Sierra Leone

Download or read book The History of Sierra Leone written by A. B. C. Sibthorpe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Children  Education and Empire in Early Sierra Leone

Download or read book Children Education and Empire in Early Sierra Leone written by Katrina Keefer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West Africa by westernized Africans, and a rapid demographic increase through the judicial emancipation of Liberated Africans. Within this complex and often volatile environment, the voices and experiences of children have been difficult to trace and to follow. Enslaved children historically are a challenging narrative to highlight due to their comparative vulnerability. This book offers newly transcribed data and fills in a lacuna in the scholarship of early Sierra Leone and the Atlantic world. It presents a narrative of children as they experienced a set of circumstances which were unique and important to abolitionist historiography, and demonstrates how each element of that situation arose by analyzing the rich documentary evidence. By presenting the data as well as the individuals whose lives were affected by the mission schools (both as teacher or pupil) this study has sought to be as complete as possible. Underlying the more academic tone is a recognition of the individual humanity of both teachers and students whose lives together shaped this early phase in the history of Sierra Leone. The missionaries who created the documents from which this study arises all died in Sierra Leone after having profound impacts on the lives of many hundreds of pupils. Their students went on to become important historical figures both locally and throughout West Africa. Not all rose to prominence, and the book reconstructs the lives of pupils who became local tradespeople in addition to those who had a greater social stature. This book attempts to offer analysis without forgetting the fundamental human trajectories which this material encompasses.

Book Coastal Sierra Leone

Download or read book Coastal Sierra Leone written by Jennifer Diggins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of a threadbare post-war state and a global marine ecology in treacherous decline, Jennifer Diggins offers a dynamic account of post-war Sierra Leone, through the examination of a precarious frontier economy and those who depend on it. The book traces how understandings of intimacy, interdependence, and exploitation have been shaped through a history of indentured labour, violence, and gendered migration; and how these relationships are being renegotiated once more in a context of deepening economic uncertainty. At its core, this is about the material substance of human relationships. One can go a long way towards mapping the town's shifting networks of friendship, love, and obligation simply by watching the vast daily traffic in gifts of fish exchanging hands on the wharf. However, these mundane social and economic strategies are often inflected through a cultural dynamic of 'secrecy', and a shared sense of the unseen forces understood to inhabit the material world.

Book Gender and Power in Sierra Leone

Download or read book Gender and Power in Sierra Leone written by L. Day and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.

Book Sierra Leone Studies

Download or read book Sierra Leone Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sierra Leone and its Identity Salone

Download or read book Sierra Leone and its Identity Salone written by Bankole Kamara Taylor and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the country and the people of Sierra Leone. It is also about the history of the country and the different ethnic groups which constitute the population and how they live. It is also about the geography and climate of the country, its towns and cities. It is a general introduction to Sierra Leone and includes coverage of some of the most tragic events in the history of the country and its collapse when it was plunged into a civil war, one of the most brutal conflicts in the history of post-colonial Africa. Included in the book are interviews with some American ambassadors to Sierra Leone which shed more light on the country, providing a more comprehensive picture of one of the most fascinating countries on the African continent; also one of the most traumatized because of the horrendous tragedy it went through during the civil war which lasted for more than ten years and spilled across borders especially in terms of human suffering, with waves of refugees seeking shelter in neighbouring countries. It is also a country that almost never became one had the indigenous people won wars against the settlers from Britain and North America as well as the Caribbean who first settled in what came to be known as Freetown, later and still the capital of the country, which formed the nucleus of what came to be known as the British colony and protectorate of Sierra Leone. But that is a story for another book.

Book Sierra Leone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bankole Kamara Taylor
  • Publisher : New Africa Pres
  • Release : 2014-02
  • ISBN : 9987160387
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Sierra Leone written by Bankole Kamara Taylor and published by New Africa Pres. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at Sierra Leone, its people and history. Other subjects are also covered to provide a general introduction to the country. It is not intended for academic specialists, and it is not an in-depth study of the country. It is written from the perspective of a layman or general reader who simply wants to know some important things about this West African country. Sierra Leone is one of the oldest countries in Africa. And before it won independence in 1961, it was also one of the oldest colonies on the continent. Only two African countries won independence in 1961, both from the same colonial power, Great Britain. They were Sierra Leone, on 27 April, and Tanganyika on 9 December. The history of Sierra Leone is also one of the most tragic. But Sierra Leone still is one of the most fascinating countries on the continent in spite of the horrendous tragedy it went through during the civil war in the 1990s. The fact that it emerged intact from that brutal conflict is strong testimony to the resilience of the Sierra Leonean people against overwhelming odds which could have broken weaker souls.

Book Sierra Leone and Its People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bankole Kamara Taylor
  • Publisher : Bankole Kamara Taylor
  • Release : 2011-06-27
  • ISBN : 1463661282
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Sierra Leone and Its People written by Bankole Kamara Taylor and published by Bankole Kamara Taylor. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to serve as an introduction to Sierra Leone and its people. Sierra Leone is one of the oldest countries which were created by Europeans in Africa. Its history is also one of the most tragic. Although the land and the people are the focus of this work, other aspects of Sierra Leone are also examined to get a comprehensive picture of the country. The book should help many foreigners to learn some basic facts about the country, especially if they want to go to Sierra Leone.

Book West African Soldiers in Britain s Colonial Army  1860 1960

Download or read book West African Soldiers in Britain s Colonial Army 1860 1960 written by Timothy Stapleton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960 explores the history of Britain's West African colonial army based in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia placing it within a broader social context and emphasizing, as far as possible, the experience of the ordinary soldier. The aim is not to describe the many battles and campaigns fought by this force but to look at the development of the West African colonial army as an institution over the course of about a century. In pursuing this goal, it is sometimes useful to employ the lens of military culture defined differently by scholars but essentially meaning a set of shared ideas and behaviors that inform daily life in the military. While other locally recruited colonial militaries in Africa have attracted considerable attention from historians as they served as an essential pillar supporting European rule, this book represents the first comprehensive scholarly study of Britain's West African army which was the largest such British-led force south of the Sahara. The study is based on extensive archival research conducted in nine archives located in five countries"--

Book A New History of Sierra Leone

Download or read book A New History of Sierra Leone written by Joe A. D. Alie and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the colonial era very little thought was given to the promotion of African history and culture in African educational institutions. Most colonial educationalists stubbornly refused to appreciate that Africa had a history worth talking about.

Book A Short History of Sierra Leone     for the Use of the Schools of the Colony

Download or read book A Short History of Sierra Leone for the Use of the Schools of the Colony written by John Joseph Crooks and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Africans in Exile

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathan Riley Carpenter
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-10
  • ISBN : 025303809X
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Africans in Exile written by Nathan Riley Carpenter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This rich volume will interest scholars and students of Africa, the African diaspora, world history, legal history, and international affairs.” —Lorelle Semley, author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an “archive” that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.

Book African States and Rulers  3d ed

Download or read book African States and Rulers 3d ed written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, this is a bigger (more than 11,000 entries), updated version of the 1989 original covering the enormous kaleidoscope of changing political boundaries, names, and rulers of Africa. This exhaustive reference allows the user quickly to determine what happened in or to each country and when--changes of names, political systems, rulers, and so on. The term "state" is loosely defined to embrace, throughout the history of Africa, any area of land with recognized borders and evidence of a continuing governmental structure, almost always with a capital city. Entries give official name of country, dates during which it went by that name, location, capital, alternate names including cross-references to previous and later incarnations, and a list of rulers with dates of power when known. A new table details AIDS in the African states.