The narrativisation of our individual and collective pasts—what scholars often term history—has rarely prioritised problematising those pasts to foster national or continental unity. In Sierra Leone, historians, both local and foreign, have frequently fixated on the notion of static, unchanging ethnic identities, perpetuating a flawed understanding of the nation’s history. This approach has obscured the dynamic, multi-ethnic realities of Sierra …
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