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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sierra Leone
		Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
		Sierra Leone is the worst nation in the world for childbirth, having the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), or risk of maternal death, of any country.
		Sierra Leone is a republic with an executive president and a multi-party system of government.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sierra-Leone (1439 words)

	Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
		Much of Sierra Leone's coastline consists of mangrove swamps, with the exception of the peninsula on which the capital city Freetown is located.
		Sierra Leone is also the worst country for childbirth, having the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio, or risk of maternal death, of any country.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/s/si/sierra_leone.html (824 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In 1808, Sierra Leone became a British Crown Colony, which it remained until halfway through the 20th century, when the process of de-colonisation was commenced.
		Much of Sierra Leone's coastline consists of mangrove swamps, with the exception of the peninsula on which the capital city Freetown is located.
		Sierra Leone is the worst nation for childbirth in the world, having the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio, or risk of maternal death, of any country.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Sierra_Leone (881 words)

	Sierra Leone - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
		The rest of Sierra Leone is mostly plateau (about 300 m above sea level) covered by forests, with mountains in the east of the country (highest point Loma Mansa, 1,948 m).
		The fate of the economy depends upon the maintenance of domestic peace and the continued receipt of substantial aid from abroad.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sierra_Leone (1008 words)

	Sierra Leone - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In 1808, Sierra Leone became a British Crown Colony, which it remained until halfway through the 20th century, when the process of de-colonisation was commenced.
		The rest of Sierra Leone is mostly plateau (about 300 m above sea level) covered by forests, with mountains in the east of the country (highest point Loma Mansa, 1,948 m).
		Sierra Leone is the worst nation for childbirth in the world, having the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio, or risk of maternal death, of any country.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sierra_leone.htm (984 words)

	Music of Sierra Leone -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		(A republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961) Sierra Leone's (An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner) music is a mixture of native and (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French influences.
		Bissaun gumbe music was popular in Sierra Leone, and has led to a unique offshoot called milo-jazz.
		In the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s, (Click link for more info and facts about SE Rogie) SE Rogie became the most prominent Sierra Leonean musician, playing to large audiences across Europe and North America.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_of_sierra_leone.htm (175 words)

	Sierra Leone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa.
		The name Sierra Leone was adapted from the Spanish version: Sierra León, and in turn, from the Portuguese Serra-Leão [or Serra Leoa] which stands for "lioness mountains." It was an important centre of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
		The written history of Sierra Leone began in 1462, when Portuguese explorers first landed and named the country "Lion Mountains".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sierra_Leone (1204 words)

	ANTI- Artist - Sierra Leones Refugee All Stars
		Formed in a refugee camp in the West African nation of Guinea, all of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars’ members lived in or around Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city, prior to their individual departures in the late 1990’s.
		Their music is so buoyant and joyful.") it is the music of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars that is now prepped to win over legions of new fans.
		Born in the midst of a violent, decade-long civil war, through music, they have found a place of refuge, a sense of purpose and a source of power.
	www.anti.com /artist.php?id=37 (872 words)

	Nikebiz : News : Press Release : Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars to Help Refugee Youth
		They are a symbol of hope, and today, prior to their debut performance at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars announced that they are committing themselves to helping the world’s nine million refugee youth.
		Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars’ ‘Living Like A Refugee’ album, released on September 26 by Anti- Records, features an insert about ninemillion.org with a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD to be donated to the ninemillion.org fund.
		The resulting film, “Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars” (SLRAS) is one of the most acclaimed documentaries of the year, winning more than a dozen awards at film festivals around the world.
	www.nike.com /nikebiz/news/pressrelease.jhtml;bsessionid=VOAKGF5ERQJAACQFTBECF4YKAWMEUIZB?year=2006&month=11&letter=c (878 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Sierra Leone, republic, western Africa, bordered on the north-west, north, and north-east by Guinea, on the south-east by Liberia, and on the...
		Freetown, capital, largest city, and principal port of Sierra Leone, situated on a peninsula on the south bank of the estuary of the Sierra Leone...
		Loma Mountains, a massif in north-eastern Sierra Leone.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Sierra_Leone.html (96 words)

	Sierra Leonean Heroes - "Our Cultural Heritage" - Sierra Leone Web
		As a member of the Sierra Leone Society, he spearheaded the founding of the Sierra Leone Museum in 1958 and became its first curator, working untiringly to acquire worthy exhibits for the museum and to set up attractive displays.
		Through him, Sierra Leone broadcasting was raised to the highest professional standards that became the envy of the region.
		Ebenezer Calendar's place in Sierra Leone's history is assured because of his significant contribution to the development of a distinctively Sierra Leonean musical tradition.
	www.sierra-leone.org /heroes10.html (1834 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Sierra Madre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Sierra Madre, mountain system, Mexico, the country's chief range, enclosing the central plateau of Anáhuac.
		Paricutín, active volcano in the Sierra Madre of Mexico.
		The largest species, the imperial woodpecker of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, is probably extinct.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Sierra_Madre.html (91 words)

	Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa.
		The name Sierra Leone was adapted from the Spanish version: Sierra LeÃ³n, and in turn, from the Portuguese Serra-LeÃ£o, which stands for "lioness mountains." It was an important centre of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
		The written history of Sierra Leone began in 1462, when Portuguese explorers first landed and named the country "Lion Mountains".
	www.abcworld.net /Sierra_Leone.html (1177 words)

	Sierra Leone facts, Sierra Leone travel videos, flags, photos - National Geographic
		Sierra Leone is on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, with coastal swamps rising to interior plateaus and mountains.
		Named "lion mountain" by a 15th-century Portuguese explorer, Sierra Leone was a British colony from the early 19th century until 1961.
		In 2002 Sierra Leone emerged from a decade of civil war, with the help of some 17,000 UN peacekeepers.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /places/countries/country_sierraleone.html (315 words)

	Sierra Leone - Culture
		Sierra Leonean palm wine music is known as maringa, and it was first popularized by Ebenezer Calender and His Maringar Band, who used styles that came from freed slaves from the Caribbean, especially Trinidadian calypso.
		Milo-jazz is a distinctly Sierra Leonean style named for a brand of chocolate powder, empty cans of which were filled with stones to form a core percussion instrument of the genre.
		Sierra Leoneans abroad have created their own styles, such as the Spanish Seydu, German Ansoumana Bangura and the Brit Abdul Tee-Jay [3].
	www.apropos-sierra-leone.com /Culture-4.html (270 words)

	Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars at The Filmore at The Fillmore (Thursday, November 9, 2006) - Upcoming
		The music of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars is a spirited, infectious, and soothing blend of traditional West African music, roots reggae and classic Rhythm and Blues.
		Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars are comprised of musicians who lived for years as refugees in the West African nation of Guinea.
		Music brought them together and through a Refugee Aid Organization they were able to acquire a couple of beat up electric guitars along with a rusted out sound system and began forming Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
	www.upcoming.org /event/108460 (339 words)

	Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
		All the members of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars lived in or near Sierra Leone's capital city before fleeing Freetown during the country's decade-long civil war.
		Now Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars tour the world spreading their message of peace and love in a "can't help but dance" show that fans from all musical backgrounds can enjoy.
		Their music is so buoyant and joyful.") it is the music of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars that is now winning over legions of new fans.
	www.rosebudus.com /refugeeallstars/Biography.html (952 words)

	Holidays in Sierra Leone
		Republic of Sierra Leone in West-Arfika at the Atlantic Coast.
		Sierra Leone is divided into four regional divisions: Eastern, Northern, Southern Provinces and the Western Area.
		Clarksons journal of the ingathering in Nova Scotia, the ocean crossing and the harrowing experience of the first year in Sierra Leone is one of the most powerful documents of the history of liberty.
	www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/africa/sierraleone/sierraleone.html (1575 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Sierra Leone's music crusader
		The 26-year-old sees his mission to make great music with a message, in a society where corruption is on the rise.
		Music, he believes, can change things for the better, as was evident during the brutal civil war.
		Women in Sierra Leone often have no choice but to sleep with their employers to keep their jobs, he says.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3945201.stm (457 words)

	Africa News Online - Ethiopia denies occupying Baidoa
		Sierra Leone is one of the smaller African nations in the West of West Africa and because of its Capital Freetown, founded in 1787 to give freed slaves a new home, it had an early and intensive experience with the western Christian education and values(1).
		Sierra Leone received a grant of £ 23.000, which paid for the transmitter and the cost of expanding the Freetown studios (Decker 1956, p.
		West African music people in Freetown in particular loved as for a great proportion of the population this was music from their former homelands(1).(Not clear) That there are records from Southern Africa and a few from East Africa is definitely the case because of the link between British territories within Africa.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Boardwalk/4823/africammusic.html (7589 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Glossary: African Styles of Music
		Also called mbira-based music, one of the best examples of this sound is the music of Thomas Mapfumo.
		Morrocan music of people descended from the slaves brought from Mali in the 16th century.
		music originates in the tropical Sierra Leone located on the the far West coast of Africa.
	www.africanmusic.org /glossary.html (792 words)

	Dispatches from the front are in searing protest music » PopMatters \| News and Commentary \| PopWire
		Most of that music comes from a second- and third-hand perspective, an outraged response to newscasts and media reports from overseas.
		Music was a way of comforting myself, a form of therapy and treatment.
		Though written under dire circumstances, the music is joyous, upbeat, a blend of West African folk, pop and Caribbean reggae known as goombay.
	www.popmatters.com /pm/news/article/7218/dispatches-from-the-front-are-in-searing-protest-music1 (1550 words)

	NPR : Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		But even that description only scratches the surface of her music's sly lyrics and rip-roaring swing.
		Alec Berlin's music extends from Broadway orchestra to jazz and rock 'n' roll.
		Music Notes is a monthly recap of music-related offerings on NPR.org delivered via email.
	www.npr.org /templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1039&startNum=16&pageNum=28 (822 words)

	Music of Sierra Leone - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Sierra Leonean palm wine music is known as maringa, and it was first popularized by Ebenezer Calender & His Maringar Band, who used styles that came from freed slaves from the Caribbean, especially Trinidadian calypso.
		Bissaun gumbe music was popular in Sierra Leone, and has led to a unique offshoot called milo-jazz.
		In the 1980s, SE Rogie became the most prominent Sierra Leonean musician, playing to large audiences across Europe and North America.
	www.jiggies.com /reference/Music_of_Sierra_Leone (182 words)

	Print Article: A thousand reasons to listen to Joanna
		Highlights of a headlong music career include world premieres of works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Lou Harrison, collaborations with jazz artists Django Bates and Andy Sheppard, numerous recordings and the launch of her own record label, Soundcircus, dedicated to "new sounds for open ears".
		As such she has been artistic director of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, professor of music at Gresham College in London, is a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain and has just become artistic director of the Britten Sinfonia.
		Her CD Play, which was nominated for Britain's top gong, the Mercury Music Prize, is a personal manifesto of music-making, which puts a Renaissance ballad in between a Piazolla tango and a Ligeti fragment.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/06/30/1056825330657.html (940 words)

	Non-Governmental Organisations and Associations - Sierra Leone Web
		The mission of the Charity is to alleviate the sufferings of the helpless women and children in particular affected by the rebel war in Sierra Leone.
		Founded by former Sierra Leone residents Phil and Judy Nelson in 1998, International D.O.V.E. Association is a non-denominational Christian organisation, with a vision of caring for orphans in war-torn countries in the world.
		The Appeal is proposing to rebuild the Kambia Hospital in association with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health, to provide a hospital for Kambia District appropriate for the 21st century.
	www.sierra-leone.org /assns.html (2804 words)

	Musician hooked on W. African, hip-hop blend - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Turn on some music -- any music -- and Bam Savage will close his eyes, nod his head, and tell you how that tune was made.
		It's a unique listening skill the emcee/independent music producer has developed over the years as he has moved from a mere fan of hip-hop, RandB, and traditional West African music, to a creator of music that draws from all three.
		Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Savage was introduced to music by his family, who regularly blasted the music of Marvin Gaye and Bob Marley around the house.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/10/19/musician_hooked_on_w_african_hip_hop_blend?mode=PF (960 words)

	World and traditional music: African ethnographic collections
		The first trip to the Zambia, Zaire, Tanzania and Kenya resulted in a collection of traditional music recordings and a detailed study of the guitar finger styles that were common in the 1950s and 1960s.
		The collection includes recordings of music from Lesotho, Zulu recordings made at the ingoma ebusuku (isicathamiya) choir competitions and a recording of an interview with the recordist.
		Basotho music - recorded by Henry Hardy at a rehearsal for the Young Farmers' fund-raising concert at Mohale's Hoek in March 1967.
	blpc.bl.uk /collections/sound-archive/wtmafricalist.html (2247 words)

	Global Voices Online » African Music Roundup
		Music out of Africa is so rich it deserves it’s own full section in any major music store.
		This project was recorded by six Sierra Leone musicians living in refugee camps in neighbouring Guinea.
		The music — African folk/pop with a strong reggae influence — includes heartbreaking messages of peace and forgiveness, despite what the refugees have been through.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /2006/01/17/african-music-roundup (1205 words)

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