Travel and tourism in Sierra Leone is a hot topic!

Until a few days ago, if I am asked to say on Sierra Leone, I thought long and hard to say much on that country in West Africa. I said probably difficult, when the country is placed. I should mention something about the trade in slaves in Sierra Leone. I could certainly have said that it had tested a brutal civil war. I would even admitted that I was not at all sure that the war was over 100%. And that, in this regard.

Slavery and war. A rather negative view of what is in fact a particularly positive. Today, I see Sierra Leone from an entirely different perspective.

It is difficult to be unknown to history and the heart of Sierra Leone enters the present. Once the sector occupied a dozen tribes, it was the Portuguese authorities in the 1400’s, built like a fortress counter trade for gold, spices, ivory and slaves. A British protectorate in the back years, Sierra Leone had the dubious honor, at home with more than 40,000 free slaves, who during his behalf in Freetown. How protectorate, Sierra Leone, was used for its richness in minerals and diamonds in 1900 and Sierra Leoneans fought.against the Germans in Cameroon in the First World War, and with the side of the English War II World. In 1961, Sierra Leone to independence from the United Kingdom and control quiet for 30 years. Peace has not been brutalised at the end and was followed by a decade of brutal civil war destroyed the economy, brutalised the man and left a country rich in resources as one of the lowest the world.