hi; am john balogun you see peace keepers really do suffer but all the same with out them there would be disaster in africa. so we should be very gratefull to them imagine those fighters going dont know if they would come back some of them with five children they die in another mans land living their wife and children to suffer for nothing but god is with them. generally they are good because with out them i cant imagine the way africa will be so we should be gratefull to them. the book is very good teaches us about what is going on in africa so that others to come would also have ideas about what has happened in the past.

Fisrt of all, I congratulate the author(s) of this book. For the fact that he wrote about Sierra Leone at the end of the twentieth century. A war turn country which is politically detorated by politician. Historically it is colonized by Britain in 1961 and many of thier decendants where former slaves from the US, Cuba, Spain, UK etc. The culture and society of Siera Leone is okay. It has some little connection with western society in some certain sense unlike the Poro for men, Bondo for women etc. That why I first of all congratulated the author(s) for thier contribution although i not yet read the content of the book. it's a book that is intresting to the world. Because it came to a time (1999) when all international communities uncluding NGOs attensions are focused on that country for it brutal war especially at the end of the 20th century. So that is my preview of the this book. If any questions you let me know through my mail. Thanks.

Balancing personal insight with extensive research, Conteh-Morgan and Dixon-Fyle have managed an in-depth, yet concise and at times self-critical, analysis of modern-day Sierra Leone. I recommend this book to anyone who either needs, or wants, a better understanding of Sierra Leone.