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Freetown: The original sin thepatrioticvanguard.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thepatrioticvanguard.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Happy Birthday “Freetown”: But Don’t Corrupt History. History teaches us that on March 11, 1792, on a small patch of bushy land that was bought for the Nova Scotian Settlers; a thanksgiving service was held under the now famous Freetown Cotton Tree to christen our city known as Freetown. Happy Birthday Freetown. The name “Freetown” is self-explanatory; a landmark used to demonstrate the freedom of slaves once they set foot on this soil. Freetown is now 229 years old. However, in celebrating this landmark, it is worth noting that the significance of “Freetown” does not only lie around the shores of Freetown and Sierra Leone. The significance stretches to all of Africa, the Caribbeans, Nova Scotia, and the Americas and to all Africans, whose history will never be complete without a chapter on slavery. Slavery ranks as the biggest single violence, evil and injustice that humankind has ever committed on its own kind. Therefore, to be part of, or to come from a ....
Happy Birthday "Freetown" – but don't corrupt history – SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH thesierraleonetelegraph.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesierraleonetelegraph.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Freetown: The Original Sin By Dr. Vandy Kanyako, Portland, USA âLandâ played a critical role in the founding and shaping (literally) of modern Freetown. The first set of settlers from Europe, North America and the Caribbean were lured to what is now Freetown with the promise of âfree landâ. Right from the outset, however, due to a confluence of factors, this highly desirable immobile asset proved to be an explosive issue that soon pitted the new arrivals, the Koya Temne and the British authorities against one another. The history of modern Freetown and by extension, Sierra Leone, will therefore be incomplete without understanding the intractable nature and dynamics of land and its linkages to class, privilege, politics and social conflicts. ....