Sierra Leone Research Paper

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Sierra Leone is a small independent nation on the coast of western Africa. Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. The total area of this relatively small country is 71,740 sq km (27,699 sq mi). Guinea bounds Sierra Leone on the north and east, Liberia on the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean on the southwest and west. Archaeology findings show that “the ancestors of the Limbas, the oldest ethnic group in Sierra Leone, the coastal Bullom, Temne, the Mande-speaking people, including Vai, Loko and Mende” (History of Sierra Leone) had inhabited Sierra Leone for at least 2,500 years. The ancestors of these ethnic groups organised themselves in small political faction of independent kingdoms, the power of who rule is checked and