%0 Journal Article
%T Sierra Leone: A Historical Cultural Capital of Pan-Africanism
%A Amadu Jacky Kaba
%J Sociology Mind
%P 76-100
%@ 2160-0848
%D 2022
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/sm.2022.122005
%X This
paper examines the concept of Sierra Leone serving historically as a cultural
capital of Pan-Africanism. Culture is examined from the perspectives of race,
language, formal educational attainment, and religion, especially Christianity.
Racially and ethnically, the people of Sierra Leone today are the descendants
of not just native Sierra Leoneans, but also natives of dozens of other
Sub-Saharan African nations, and people of Black African descent from North
America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. As a result, the Sierra Leone
Krio/Creole language is a Pan-African Krio/Creole. Historically, Fourah Bay
College in Sierra Leone has served as one of the most important academic/intellectual
institutions in the Black world that have contributed to the brain trust to
Pan-Africanism. Finally, Sierra Leonean Christianity can be explained as a
Pan-African Christianity.
%K Sierra Leone
%K Pan-Africanism
%K Christianity
%K Culture
%K Krio/Creole
%K Fourah Bay College
%K Education
%K West Africa
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=116850