The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
Patterns of rural protest: Chiefs, slaves, and peasants in north western Sierra Leone 1896-1956 PhD dissertation by Ismail Rachid focusing on slave and peasant resistance to…
Reflections on the 1955 Freetown Riots by a senior police officer This is not a first hand account of the riots, and it is given from the point of view of a police…
Strikes and riots in Sierra Leone, 1955 (Hansard) Discussion from the House of Commons after British troops suppressed strikes and riots in Sierra Leone by shooting into crowds, killing twenty…
Police kill striking diamond miners in Sierra Leone Hundreds of workers are striking against non-payment of bonuses, for an end to racism, and improved conditions at Sierra Leone’s largest diamond…
