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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. But Freetown’s British colonial rulers struggled to acclimatise. Many were plagued by deadly fevers […]
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Publish date : 2025-01-05 09:01:36
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