The Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (informally British Sierra Leone) was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961...

of the Crown Colony of Sierra Leone. The British first arrived in what is now modern-day Sierra Leone in 1787, when philanthropists and abolitionists...

in the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate. Circa 2010, the Sierra Leone Armed Forces consisted of around 13,000 personnel. Before Sierra Leone gained...

Colony and Protectorate, which had previously been governed separately. Sierra Leone gained independence from the United Kingdom on 27 April 1961 and...

originally officially known as Colony of Sierra Leone and its Dependencies, then British West African Territories and finally British West African Settlements...

formal recognition of the territory as the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate. Sierra Leone attained independence from the United Kingdom in 1961 under...

Sierra Leone from the establishment of the Province of Freedom Colony by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor which lasted between 1787 and...

liberated Africans of Sierra Leone, also known as recaptives, were Africans who had been illegally enslaved onboard slave ships and rescued by anti-slavery...

becoming the Republic of Sierra Leone on 19 April 1971. When British rule ended in April 1961, the British Crown Colony of Sierra Leone was given independence...

Sierra Leone. He served in office during the turbulent Hut Tax War of 1898. Parkes wrote an extensive report on life in Sierra Leone's protectorate....

British Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate between 1831 and 1934. Some of the Jewish merchants who settled in Sierra Leone were an important part of the...

from 2023. Foreign relations of Sierra Leone Foreign relations of the United Kingdom Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate (1808–1961)  This article incorporates...

Sierra Leone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sierra Leone is a country in western Africa. Sierra Leone may also refer to: Sierra Leone Colony and...

had won more seats than the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). However, all the independent members from the protectorate later declared for the SLPP...

Grammar School in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In August 1861, a British naval force entered Lagos and annexed Lagos as a British colony via the Lagos Treaty of...

Attorney General of Sierra Leone when he was appointed Chief Justice of that protectorate in November 1901. He was knighted in 1905 and held the post until 1911...

Sierra Leone assumed its present large geographical size only in 1896. Prior to that, it was only a small colony encompassing roughly the 30-km-long peninsula...

reputation both among his subjects and the Freetown-based Colony Government. When Sierra Leone was declared a Protectorate in 1896, Foamansa Matturi was crowned...

Afro-Caribbean, and Liberated African slaves who settled in the Western Area of Sierra Leone between 1787 and about 1885. The colony was established by...

General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate in May 1957. A total of 39 seats were up for election, whilst another 12 paramount...

a Sierra Leone Creole lawyer and the first black African barrister to practise in the English courts. Originally from the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate...

and standard issue British coinage circulated. The West African territories in question were Nigeria, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra Leone and the...

in Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone, Ajayi adopted the English name Samuel Crowther, and began his education in English. He adopted Christianity and also...

Sierra Leone remained a British colony throughout World War II. As such, it fought alongside the Allies against the Axis. No largescale battles or military...

General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate for the first time on 28 October 1924. The National Congress of British West Africa...

1905 – 29 May 1988) was the leader of Sierra Leone from 1967 to 1985, serving as Prime Minister from 1967 to 1971 and as President from 1971 to 1985. Stevens'...

(1849–1920, born in Freetown, Sierra Leone) was a Saro who was both the second Nigerian to qualify as a medical doctor and the co-author, with his brother...

the Bumpe Chiefdom, 1864–1888 and 1894–1901. This area became incorporated into the Sierra Leone Protectorate in 1888, and is now part of the Moyamba District...

1886) was a Sierra Leonean colonial official who served as Sheriff of the Colony of Sierra Leone. Meheux was born to a Temne mother and Jean Meheux,...

Gold Coast to Charles MacCarthy, governor of the colony of Sierra Leone. The British forts and Sierra Leone remained under common administration for the first...