Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil WarPostcolonial Political Fiasco

Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War: Postcolonial Political Fiasco [This chapter examines the early years of Sierra Leone after the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai. The sociopolitical course of the country was derailed when Sir Milton died in 1964 and his brother, Sir Albert Margai, was whisked into power. A complicated general election in 1967 produced a series of coups that eventually brought the opposition politician, Siaka Stevens, to power. Stevens instituted a dictatorship of kleptomaniacs who gradually eliminated all oppositions and solidified a single-party state. Stevens retired in 1985 and placed the country in the hands of a military officer by the name of Joseph Momoh. This chapter includes an analysis of Momoh’s regime as a brutal continuation of the Stevens political system.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil WarPostcolonial Political Fiasco

Download PDF
27 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/free-slaves-freetown-and-the-sierra-leonean-civil-war-postcolonial-i0nLWG1uLW
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-1-349-94853-6
Pages
185 –212
DOI
10.1057/978-1-349-94854-3_8
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter examines the early years of Sierra Leone after the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai. The sociopolitical course of the country was derailed when Sir Milton died in 1964 and his brother, Sir Albert Margai, was whisked into power. A complicated general election in 1967 produced a series of coups that eventually brought the opposition politician, Siaka Stevens, to power. Stevens instituted a dictatorship of kleptomaniacs who gradually eliminated all oppositions and solidified a single-party state. Stevens retired in 1985 and placed the country in the hands of a military officer by the name of Joseph Momoh. This chapter includes an analysis of Momoh’s regime as a brutal continuation of the Stevens political system.]

Published: Nov 23, 2016

Keywords: Prime Minister; Coalition Government; Military Coup; National Building; Economic Emergency

There are no references for this article.