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
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
The Book of Negroes
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxSo Many Africas by Jill KandelKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayJourney Without Maps by Graham Greene
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 115 voters
Bravo Two Zero - The True Story Of An SAS Patrol Behind Enemy... by Andy McNabWho Dares Wins by Tony GeraghtyJoker by Pete ScholeyRogue Heroes by Ben MacintyreDead Centre by Owen  Jones
SAS - Special Air Service
174 books — 28 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

Ishmael Beah
Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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