Sergio Leone

This will stop them from needing to leave the country to go get better help elsewhere, heightening the risk of spreading it on airplanes or through car rides. Unfortunately, because Guinea lacks the proper health care, all along the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia, people traveling back and forth caused the Ebola virus to spread throughout those countries. Travelers from Nigeria, the United States, Senegal, and Mali all saw at least one case of Ebola (who.int, Accessed June 7,…

The African mask has appeared in various forms and has been adapted in countless ways in Western art as a typification of ceremonial masquerade. In the 2016 Brooklyn Museum exhibition titled Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, twenty-five contemporary artists attempted to bridge the gap between mask and masquerade by both historically contextualizing and re-creating the part that the African mask and masquerade play today. The Helmet Mask (Gbetu) with Raffia Costume was created during the…

“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion” (Beah 166). Ismael Beah uses memories as a method to find coziness within the horrific times throughout the environment of RUF. Beah reveries the periods of times before RUF as a child, recounting the jubilant moments of his family to surpass another day in war. In the other hand, Beah’s uses his memory to devotes himself motivation to stay alive in order relive those memories.…

Every individual has their own version of what the American dream means to them. However, the American dream, as described by Dictionary.com, is comprised of freedom, equality, opportunity, a life of personal happiness, and material comfort. This meaning describes the perfect life, which is why the word ‘dream’ is used in the phrase American dream. To achieve even one component of this perfect lifestyle, people go through many obstacles and sacrifice many aspects of their lives and parts of…

aiding and abetting war crimes during the brutal civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. In 1989 Charles Taylor stared the Liberia civil war. He was a warlord and was elected president in 1997. For six year, before he was forced into exile in Nigeria he governed Liberia. He was convicted for 11 charges of war crime and crime against humanity. This was for his alleged role in the brutal civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. He was accused of backing rebels that are responsible for widespread…

The name "Sierra Leone" goes again to 1462, when Portuguese wayfarer Pedro da Cintra, cruising down the West African coast, saw the tall mountains ascending on what is currently the Freetown Peninsula and called them the "Lion Mountains," or " Serra Lyoa ." Successive visits by English mariners and later British colonization changed the name to "Sierra Leone." Despite different local varieties in dialect and neighborhood customs, Sierra Leoneans today are united by numerous components, for…

In the case of Sierra Leone, the war was prolonged primarily by greed with regards to the diamond resource (mis)management. After a “golden era” of democracy and good governance in 1961 with Sir Milton Margai as first Prime Minister, the politics of mismanagement started in 1964 when his brother Albert took over power (Iro, 2009; Hirsch, 2001). He regarded the state as an instrument for personal power and this way of thinking prevailed in Sierra Leone, dominating the mind-set of the political…

Sierra Leone, which means “Lion Mountains”, is a very diverse country located on the west coast of Africa. Sierra Leone is impressively known for the country’s wealth in diamonds, also known as “blood diamonds” because of the blood that is shed to get these diamonds. The country is home to approximately 6.3 million people. Although English is the country’s official language, the languages of Temne, Mende, and Krio are also spoken. Sierra Leone’s inhabitant history, first contact with the…

A Book Review of Where is the Mango Princess and the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Where is the Mango Princess is a tragic, heart wrenching, and deeply personal account of how traumatic brain injury affected the life of, author, Cathy Crimmins (2000) and the lives of her entire family. Crimmins wrote this account in order to share her experience of living and caring for a person with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to help those in the same position as her to cope with the myriad of…

enslaved in the Carolinas referred to themselves as Gullah and the slaves in Georgia and northeastern Florida referred to as Geechee. The word “Gullah” is short for the “Gola” people of Angola, and “Geechie” refers to the “Gidzi” people of Sierra Leone. The Gullah/Geechees ' are comprised of many ethnic groups, in Africa that included those from the Rice Coast - the Wolof, Mandinka, Fula, Kissi, Baga, Mende, and Limba; and those from the Gold Coast - Angola, Calabar, and Congo. The influx of…