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The narrativization of our individual/collective past(s), what some would call history, has hardly ever rested on problematizing that past in the interest of national unity. Those who have written about that past, Sierra Leoneans as well as non-Sierra Leoneans, have dwelt on the crass reality of an imaginary and unchanging ethnicity throughout history.
Framing an understanding of that past by employing/deploying the notorious racist binary Colony versus Protectorate gives away what needs to be problematized. For it not only assumes the superiority of the Colony as against the Protectorate, but more importantly underwrites an hierarchisation of peoples and cultures with the West at the top and the rest at the bottom.