Representatives of Sierra Leone's 149 paramount chiefs, local traditional rulers in the former British colony, will name Blair one of their own at a ceremony in the township of Mahera.

The company founded a colony in Sierra Leone in 1792, but it later went bankrupt and the British government assumed control. The country officially became a British colony in 1808. Church Mission ...

By the mid-19th century, Freetown had become a major center of trade and commerce in West Africa. It also served as the headquarters of Christian missionary activities in the region. The British ...

Sierra Leone was the first African country colonised by Britain in 1787. Sponsored and governed by the private Sierra Leone Company, Britain made Sierra Leone a crown colony in 1808.

The settlement grows. In 1791, another group arrived in the colony and sought out a new treaty of settlement. This group chose to immigrate to Sierra Leone from inhospitable Nova Scotia (Canada ...

The kidnap of 11 British soldiers in Sierra Leone by a renegade militia that is nominally on the side of the government once again raised questions about the United Kingdom's involvement in its former ...

Celebrations across the country to mark Independence Day have become a usual tradition. There is nothing bad with fellow Sierra Leoneans celebrating Independence. After all, our colonial era began ...

Sierra Leone got its start as a colony in 1787, when an agent of British Anti-slavery Crusader Granville Sharp leased what is now Freetown from a local tribal chief and set it up as a haven for ...

Analysis - Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves who were returned to Africa by British members of the movement to end slavery. Founded in ...