Sierra Leone
Essays

Over the last several decades, Sierra Leone has been subject to vast population changes due to a violent civil war, the murder of local inhabitants by the R.U.F., rampant disease, low life expectancy, infant mortality,…

Cecil John Rhodes founded De Beers, a diamond mining and trading corporation back in 1888. It is the world's largest diamond cartel and receives all credit for making the engagement ring "an inseparable part of…

The average person reading the news about the West African nation Sierra Leone in 2015 might never get further in terms of understanding Sierra Leone than the Ebola crisis. Indeed, this epidemic has taken a serious toll…

This paper discusses the issue of child soldiers of the country of Sierra Leone. Rebel armies of that nation have taken to "recruiting" children as young as seven to their militia. These children are forced to murder and commit other atrocities at the behest of their superiors. They are also forced to become addicted to drugs so that they are more pliable.