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- ISBN
- 1860648177
- EAN
- 9781860648175
- Date of Publication
- 2002-07-26
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- Remote Corners
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1860648177
ISBN-13
9781860648175
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2229320
Product Key Features
Book Title
Remote Corners : a Sierra Leone Memoir
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Africa / West, General
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-726671
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
""Harry Mitchell tells his story in a straightforward and attractive style...his descriptive writing is a pleasure to read.""--Dougal Reid, The Overseas Pensioner, "Harry Mitchell tells his story in a straightforward and attractive style...his descriptive writing is a pleasure to read."--Dougal Reid, The Overseas Pensioner
Dewey Decimal
966.403
Table Of Content
Prelude * Freetown * Bo * Starting Work * On Trek * More of Bo * Trouble in the North * First Home Leave * Bonthe I * Bonthe II * Kambia I * Kambia II * OF Crocodiles * Home Again * Positively the last Outpost * Finale
Synopsis
Africa has been described as 'the hopeless continent' and Sierra Leone's recent history provides a vivid picture of this tragedy. Sierra Leone has witnessed a slide into anarchy and in large areas the government is powerless, with control in the hands of rebel gangs, some belonging to the Revolutionary United Front, while neighbouring states jockey for position and intrigue for influence. After years of civil war, violent changes in government, death, mutilation and destruction of property - extreme suffering by so many ordinary people - such order as exists is maintained by 11,000 United Nations troops, a battalion of British soldiers and a substantial Royal Navy force with marines. Apart from its own military costs, Britain as the former colonial power has poured in £60 million to help shore up the government. Renewed attention has been drawn to the problems of Sierra Leone by the visit of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the country in early February 2002 during a West African visit intended to highlight the African crisis in general and the dilemmas of Sierra Leone in particular. The diamond trade, especially its illicit variety, lies at the root of the problem, which began to emerge when Sierra Leone was still a British colony. Harry Mitchell shows how the colonial government tried to control the trade and harness the wealth it generated to the territory's advantage, and to limit its effect on other aspects of economic and social life. He gives a vivid account of the British Colonial administration in the twilight of Empire. He describes the daily round of a District Commissioner: sitting as a magistrate to preserve law and order; working with the District Councils and native administrations; maintaining relationships with all strata of society from Paramount Chiefs to peasants; and organising local elections at all levels to the House of Representatives - Sierra Leone's first elected parliament. Harry Mitchell and his colleagues were fearful of the fate of Sierra Leone as an independent nation despite the stability and calm at independence and, while offering no blueprint for the salvation of Africa, he suggests that a formula might be devised to bring in the United Nations as trustee for new African nations now in chaos., In this vivid memoir, Harry Mitchell gives a vivid account of the British Colonial administration in Sierra Leone in the twilight of empire. Covering such topics as civil war, United Nations occupation, and British control of the diamond trade, Mitchell covers a comprehensive recent history of a country in chaos. Mitchell fears the fate of Sierra Leone as an independent nation despite the stability and calm and independence., Africa has been described as 'the hopeless continent' and Sierra Leone's recent history provides a vivid picture of this tragedy. Sierra Leone has witnessed a slide into anarchy and in large areas the government is powerless, with control in the hands of rebel gangs, some belonging to the Revolutionary United Front, while neighbouring states jockey for position and intrigue for influence. After years of civil war, violent changes in government, death, mutilation and destruction of property - extreme suffering by so many ordinary people - such order as exists is maintained by 11,000 United Nations troops, a battalion of British soldiers and a substantial Royal Navy force with marines. Apart from its own military costs, Britain as the former colonial power has poured in 60 million to help shore up the government. Renewed attention has been drawn to the problems of Sierra Leone by the visit of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the country in early February 2002 during a West African visit intended to highlight the African crisis in general and the dilemmas of Sierra Leone in particular. The diamond trade, especially its illicit variety, lies at the root of the problem, which began to emerge when Sierra Leone was still a British colony. Harry Mitchell shows how the colonial government tried to control the trade and harness the wealth it generated to the territory's advantage, and to limit its effect on other aspects of economic and social life. He gives a vivid account of the British Colonial administration in the twilight of Empire. He describes the daily round of a District Commissioner: sitting as a magistrate to preserve law and order; working with the District Councils and native administrations; maintaining relationships with all strata of society from Paramount Chiefs to peasants; and organising local elections at all levels to the House of Representatives - Sierra Leone's first elected parliament. Harry Mitchell and his colleagues were fearful of the fate of Sierra Leone as an independent nation despite the stability and calm at independence and, while offering no blueprint for the salvation of Africa, he suggests that a formula might be devised to bring in the United Nations as trustee for new African nations now in chaos.
LC Classification Number
DT516.72.M37A3 2002
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