Sierra Leone is about to jam to the rhythms of reggae, as some of the Caribbean’s biggest stars descend on Freetown for the ...

Senegal has its acclaimed Saint-Louis Jazz Festival and Dak’Art Biennale, Burkina Faso’s mammoth film festival, FESPACO, while Benin’s return to ancestral art and Cote d’Ivoire’s resurgent nightlife ...

For the nine members of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, music provides a method for healing and a conduit for a message of hope. For nine refugees from Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, music is ...

After a two-day celebration in 2023 at Brixton House, The Sierra Leone Arts & Culture Festival (SLACfest) will return to ...

From 1991 to 2002, the tiny West African country of Sierra Leone—a diamond-rich former British colony and one-time base for the transatlantic slave trade—was disfigured by civil war as gruesome ...

In 1991, a rebel army known as The Revolutionary United Front (aka the RUF) began terrorizing the eastern villages of Sierra Leone in an effort to gain control of the country's diamond mines. With ...

on 2 April 2014 the Refugee All Stars, a group formed by refugees from Sierra Leone, were at the United Nations Headquarters to take part in the United Nations Academic Impact's conversation series, ...