Liberia: Sierra Leone - Can the 'Lion Mountain' Ever Roar Again?

opinion

After the recent fiercely contested presidential election in Liberia, world attention has turned to neighbouring Sierra Leone, which has its own crucial vote on 7th of March 2018. Both countries share so much in common, not just political histories, but devastation of symbiotic civil wars.

Following the American Revolutionary War of the 17th century, and Slave Trade abolition initiatives, freed slaves from America and those "rescued" in the West African region settled with the natives of the two geographical locations known today as Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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