Lexington Books
Pages: 332
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-8002-0 • Hardback • October 2013 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-1-4985-2057-7 • Paperback • June 2015 • $72.99 • (£56.00)
978-0-7391-8003-7 • eBook • October 2013 • $69.00 • (£53.00)
Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley is professor of history at Truman State University. She is also the director of the Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program at Truman. Ojukutu-Macauley has also taught at Fourah Bay College—University of Sierra Leone and the University of Ghana-Legon.
Ismail Rashid, is professor of history at Vassar College. He is the coeditor (with Adekeye Adebajo) of West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004).
Chapter 1: Introduction
Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid
Chapter 2: Rebellious Subjects and Citizens: Writing Subalterns into the History of Sierra Leone
Ismail Rashid
Chapter 3: Clapping With One Hand: The Search for a Gendered ‘Province of Freedom’ in the Historiography of Sierra Leone
Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
Chapter 4: (Re) envisioning the African Diaspora: Historical Memory and Cross-fertilization in Post-colonial Sierra Leone
Nemata Blyden
Chapter 5: Historical Memory, Pan-Africanism and National Identity
Tamba M’bayo
Chapter 6: The Chalmers Commission and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Sierra Leone Official Inquiries as Historical Memory
Lansana Gberie
Chapter 7: Decolonization and the Rise of Krio Separatism
Gibril Cole
Chapter 8: The Roots of Military Praetorianism in Sierra Leone
Festus Cole
Chapter 9: History and Memory in Contemporary Sierra Leone: Re-inscribing Fragments from an Atlantic Past
Ibrahim Abdullah
Chapter 10: History, Memory and Post-Colonial Sierra Leone
Arthur Abraham
Chapter 11: Sierra Leone at Fifty: Confronting Old Problems and Preparing for New Challenges
Yusuf Bangura
Chapter 12: They Hold Up Half the Sky: Prospects and Challenges for Sierra Leonean Women in the 21st Century and Beyond
Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
This collection of essays, showcasing the works of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra Leone’s history at home and abroad, seeks to reconfigure the western paradigms of engagement and interpretation of historical knowledge about Sierra Leone and re-center the conversation to include and reflect indigenous perspectives of the nation’s past through exploring social constructs such as class, gender, identity formation, nation building, resistance, and social conflict. The writers’ examination of the significance of these issues in recalibrating western notions of history and its sociocultural context illustrates the various paradoxes and transformative moments in Sierra Leone and West Africa.— International Journal of African Historical Studies
In an ethos of endemic corruption, ethnic-based politics, degraded educational structures, environmental pollution, and praetorian ambiguity, this anthology identifies the way to renewal. It plumbs the disquieting tensions of the trenches, gives voice to the marginalized, and rescues us from the cynical narratives of elite interests and personages. We see grassroots potential for relevance and verve, and our editors supply a long-felt need for interpretations of complex phenomena of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class.— McSamuel Dixon-Fyle, Professor of History, DePauw University