Tiwai Island, newly inscribed as Sierra Leone’s first Unesco World Heritage site, is home to rare wildlife and a remarkable ...

Sierra Leone is home to about sixteen different ethnic groups, each with its own traditions, stories, and art forms. The two largest are the Mende and the Temne, but every single group adds a flavor ...

The social uses of Arabic literacy for concealing and manipulating knowledge among the Mende of Sierra Leone are examined. We show that those Mende who are competent in Arabic literacy use their ...

Piaget's (4) principle of conservation of quantity has been demonstrated by many researchers to apply to American, European, and West African children. This investigation set out to determine the ...