Webs, Books, Films
                                
General and Miscellaneous Sites
Websites of General or Miscellaneous Interest

Directory of  Resources

Some of these Web sites may also appear on other "Webs, Books, Films" pages.  

Cry Freetown Web Site.   This Web site is a companion for the award-winning documentary by the same name (see "Cry Freetown" video).  The Web site has a brief history of Sierra Leone, an interview with the director of the video, and an online store. The site is based in London. 

http://www.cryfreetown.org

Culture of Sierra Leone

http://www.sierra-leone.org/
culture.html

Development Through Radio Project

On the Development Through Radio Project in Sierra Leone. "The project [of the Forum of Conscience, in Freetown which] gives 30 women’s groups access to policy makers and the wider development aid community through airing their concerns and aspirations on national radio." Has case studies from war victims, discussions on Reparations and Testimonials from the community on a variety of topics and issues. On Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Forum Of Conscience (FOC), a Sierra Leone based human rights organization. Has a survey of women’s radio listening patterns in Sierra Leone. See also Mercy Wambui, 2003 Reuters Digital Visions Fellow at Stanford University. [KF]  

http://www.dtronline.org/index.html

Diamond Mercenaries of Africa

Report, August 1996, by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Executive Outcomes, a South African-based company supplying mercenaries to mining companies in Sierra Leone. 

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/
stories/s10759.htm

Discuss & Reflect on National Issues.

Discuss and reflect on Sierra Leone national issues at this web site developed by John Leigh, former Sierra Leone Ambassador to the U.S. and former candidate for President.

www.bintumani.com

Documents about Sierra Leone. Important documents—speeches, government agreements, etc.  

http://www.sierra-leone.org/
documents.html

Expo Times

"Published fortnightly, with regular news updates between issues." Electronic version of a former print newspaper in Sierra Leone which was forced to close due to the war. Now published on-line and in print from France and the U.K. Publisher and Ibrahim Seaga Shaw. Has links to Sierra Leone sites, community pages.

http://www.expotimes.net/  

Female Genital Mutilation

Some of these websites are difficult emotionally to view, but these three sites do a good job of covering what is a widespread practice of profound consequence to most cultures throughout Africa and is life changing to the great majority of most women in Africa. 
                 

http://www.fgmnetwork.org/
Lightfoot-klein/prisonersofritual.htm.  "Prisoners of Ritual: Some Contemporary Developments in the History of Female Genital Mutilation" by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, a "paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Circumcision in San Francisco, April 30-May 3, 1991.  5000 w.

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/
cgi/content/full/pediatrics;102/1/153.  "Female Genital Mutilation."  American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Bioethics, Policy Statement.  Pediatrics, Vol. 102, No. 1, July 1998, pp. 153-156.  "Abstract": "The traditional custom of ritual cutting and alteration of the genitalia of female infants, girls, and adolescents...persists....  Immigrants...may [also] have daughters who have undergone a ritual genital procedure or may request that such a procedure be performed…."  2000 w.  (WARNING: GRAPHIC DRAWINGS).

http://www.religioustolerance.org/
fem_cirm.htm.  (Viewpoint from Islamic beliefs.)  "Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Africa , the Middle East & Far East " by B.A. Robinson.  "FGM is a social custom, not a religious practice. However, in those Muslim countries where it is practiced, FGM is often justified by a controversial saying attributed to the Prophet Mohammed that seems to favor sunna circumcision.... Even if true, it only permits the practice; it does not mandate it."  1600 w.

                                             
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