Sierra Leone: From a Colonial Hill Town to Idris Elba’s Island Masterplan, What Can Two Sierra Leone Developments a Century Apart Tell Us About Urban Elitism?

[The Conversation Africa] Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people from across western Africa and the Americas made it their home.

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