The K word is not a fraud. It is an archive under pressure. The K word did not fall from the sky. It was not discovered, like some ancestral stone uncovered in the ruins of old Freetown. Nor was it simply fabricated, as if a committee of anxious bourgeois men sat in a room and invented a people out of …
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Exporting Risk, Importing Responsibility- Sierra Leone’s Breach of the Customary Non-Refoulement Principle through the Refoulement of US-Deported Third-Country Nationals with Temporary Protection Status
by Sierraeyeby SierraeyeExecutive Summary This article examines Sierra Leone’s recent practice of accepting third-country nationals deported from the…
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Abstract This essay proposes a field-defining intervention into the study of Fourah Bay College at the…
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To write an intellectual history of Fourah Bay College is to begin with a paradox. The…
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