African Crafts Online (http://www.africancrafts.com/)
Profiles of weavers, beadmakers, painters, sculptors, carvers, metal casters, tie-dye artists from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria,and, Zimbabwe. Site for RUDO Craft (Rural Unity for Development Organization) - basket weavers, stone carvers and potters. Has "slide show" articles on creating glass beads, weaving, Kente cloth; lesson plans for schools. Shows artists influenced by Africa and sells crafts, books on African arts.
African Music Archive (http://www.uni-mainz.de/%7Ebender)
Established in 1991, the archive at the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany has a collection of modern African popular music recordings and videos. The collection includes a history of its 716 recordings from Sierra Leone and other West African countries. Has links to numerous other African music, musician, and ethnomusicology sites and information on courses offered.
The Amistad Revolt (http://www.sierra-leone.org/links.html)
Published by the U.S. Information Service. Arthur Abraham’s pamphlet, “The Amistad Revolt: An Historical Legacy of Sierra Leone and the United States.”
Cry Freetown (http://www.cryfreetown.org)
An award-winning film by Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura, winner of both the Rory Peck Award and the Mohammed Amin Award for the work of freelance camera people in news and current affairs. The documentary film portrays the events of January 1999 during the Civil War in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Site includes an interview with the author.
Mande Studies Association (http://uweb.txstate.edu/anthropology/mansa/)
"Founded in 1985, MANSA was organized to increase and encourage communication between scholars interested in the Mande peoples of West Africa." Site includes information about the association’s publications and activities, its by-laws, a selection of photographs on Mande culture and daily life, cultural maps, etc.
Sierra Leone Cookery (http://www.sierra-leone.org/culture.html)
Site provides links to information on Sierra Leonean cookery.
Sierra Leone Heroes (http://www.sierra-leone.org/culture.html)
"‘Commissioned by the Sierra Leone government, the site provides links to information on Sierra Leonean men and women who helped to build the nation."
Sierra Leone Photo Links (http://www.sierra-leone.org/photolinks.html)
Site includes historic photos as well as photos documenting human rights abuses and the conflict in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone in Cyberspace (http://free.freespeech.org/isierra-leone/)
Site provides links to a variety of cultural, historical and related information on Sierra Leone.
Still Training (http://www.reportage.org/2001/SierraLeoneM/PagesSLM/slmstrip.html)
"Seamus Murphy’s award-winning story on war torn Sierra Leone’s Olympic hopefuls."
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