Books from Sierra Leonean Writers Series

  • From the Land of Diamonds to the Isle of Spice
    By Tucker, Sigismund H.

    Sports, mainly in the form of cricket, athletics and football, were superb in the 50s and 60s. The main football stadium at that time was located at King Tom. There were three divisions. Most of the secondary boys' schools in Freetown ...

  • Leoneanthology: Contemporary Short Stories and Poems from Sierra Leone
    By Hallowell, Gbanabom

    But the holy books say we are born to choose That's the divine right of humans And born to choose means born to imagine possibilities Do the woolen ones, the Sufi Not say there are as many paths to God As there are human souls Save that ...

  • A Suitcase Full of Dried Fish and other stories
    By Mansaray, Bakar

    With only a head and two hands, no torso, she found herself falling into an abyss. Her hands became mouths; one single eye stood on her forehead wide-open like the head-lamp of a hunter. While her left mouth narrated all her ...

  • Manscape in the Sierra
    By Hallowell, Gbanabom

    I can hear my people singing, how treacherous the night was; how deep its memory of hate. “The night lacerated us and our children!” they sing. They converted rhymes, “Who has seen the sun, neither you nor I, but when his rays come ...

  • Probability Theory with Applications
    By J. A. Lawrence Kamara

    The main purpose of this book is to: (i) give a systematic introduction to Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; (ii) present an outline of possible applications of these theories, accompanied by descriptive concrete examples; and ...