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H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919 1958

H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919 1958

Wyse, Akintola
Anderson, David
Brown, Carolyn

Paperback

Series: African Studies, Book 64

African HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521533333
ISBN13: 9780521533331
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 11 2003
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
This substantial and thoroughly documented book is a political biography of an important figure in Sierra Leone. It is also a comment on two of the major themes of the country's history--the relations between the Colony (Krio Society) and the protectorate (the earlier inhabitants of the territory) and more importantly, the position of the imperial regime vis-à-vis its colonial subjects. The author, a Sierra Leonean and a Krio himself, skillfully examines the country's recent history through the life of Dr. H.C. Bankole-Bright, an important leader of the Krio people. The Krio, descendants of the freed slaves, were the elite of Sierra Leone for more than a century, but ultimately they failed to master mass electoral politics during the period of decolonization leading to independence. Dr. Bankole-Bright's failure is seen as emblematic of the disappointed hopes of the Krio as a political group in Sierra Leone. An underlying theme of the book is the misrepresentation of the Krio people in Sierra Leone historiography.

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