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Leach, Fiona – Gender and Education, 2008
This paper draws on Anglican mission archive material to uncover the extent to which girls' schooling in early nineteenth-century West Africa developed as a response to male interests and perceived male needs. The founding of the colony of Sierra Leone in 1787 as a home for freed slaves followed by the arrival of Protestant missionaries in 1804…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Christianity, Educational Opportunities, Political Socialization
Chuta, Enyinna; Liedholm, Carl – 1975
Urban and rural small scale industry and employment generation in Sierra Leone, Africa were studied via a 2 phase procedure. Phase 1 data collection (March-June, 1974) involved a random sampling procedure based on locality size. The following information was obtained from each of the localities (cities, towns, and villages) and "enumeration…
Descriptors: Activities, Building Trades, Classification, Economic Development