Sierra Leone

Books in this genre are set in or about Sierra Leone.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Memory of Love
Radiance of Tomorrow
The Bite of the Mango
Ancestor Stones
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
The Book of Negroes
The Heart of the Matter
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Little Family
Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
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SAS - Special Air Service
184 books — 71 voters

A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiBloodline by William GraceSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi Shawl
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
41 books — 12 voters
Simply Effective by Ron AshkenasHarvard Business Review Leader's Handbook by Ron AshkenasBelieve In Yourself And Your Dreams by Emmanuel DeanFrom Broken to Loved Again by Emmanuel DeanWrapped Up in You by Carole Matthews
African Romances
89 books — 6 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,103 books — 1,026 voters
Chasing the Devil by Tim ButcherThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
West Africa
204 books — 89 voters


Hank Bracker
“ In 1821 the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to the Pepper or Grain Coast of West Africa, to buy the land discovered by Samuel Bacon prior to his death the preceding year. Dr. Ayres sailed aboard the U.S. naval schooner the USS Alligator, commanded by Lieutenant Robert Stockton, to the proposed new colony near the Mesurado River. After several days of negotiations in November of 1821, this valuable land was purchased at gunpoint from the tribal chief King Peter. Soon after this purcha ...more ”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The History of Liberia & West Africa

John  Green
“ We got here the only way people get anywhere good: together ”
― John Green

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