The rise and wane of Krio dominance, 1787/1951 -- Key players in a deceptively quiet decolonisation, 1951/1961 -- Immediate and severe challenges: democracy and coups, 1961/1968 -- The choices of Siaka Stevens: violence, patronage and the one-party state, 1968/1991 -- Civil war and the incendiary debates over its provenance, 1991/1996 -- The escalation and ending of the civil war, 1996/2002 -- The post-conflict dispensation: plus ça change? 2002/2007 -- Political shifts in Sierra Leone: elections, liberal reform, society and the new mutlipolar world, 2007/2012. |