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Key Historical Events. The Colony of Sierra Leone originated in the sale and cession, in 1787, by native chiefs to English settlers, of a piece of land intended as a home for natives of Africa who were waifs in London, and later it was used as a settlement for freed African slaves. The hinterland was declared a British protectorate on 21 Aug. 1896. Sierra Leone became independent as a member state of the Commonwealth on 27 April 1961, and a republic on 19 April 1971.
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Binns, M. and Binns, T., Sierra Leone [Bibliography]. Oxford and Santa Barbara (CA), 1992
Fyfe, C., A History of Sierra Leone. OUP, 1962
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Hunter, B. (1996). Sierra Leone. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271258_165
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