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History and Culture in Freetown, Sierra Leone
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9798390462911
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History and Culture in Freetown, Sierra Leone
$30.45
Freetown, Sierra Leone Colony
We have to first of all determine the parameters of the area of discourse, Freetown or the Sierra Leone Colony.
The chief area of our concern is the Sierra Leone Peninsula that is backed by a stretch of mountains, remarkably visible to ships approaching the coastal area of present day Sierra Leone. It is those mountains that attracted the attention of early Portuguese voyagers to this area in the early fifteenth century and they nicknamed the area sera lyoa {lion (looking) mountains} We are not certain which of the early Portguese voyagers first used this name but it was certainly not Pedro de ?intra who claimed to have done so and whose name has been unfortunately stuck in the minds of Sierra Leoneans as subsequent writers believed him without question. His name therefore came to be seen as a point of departure in the writing of the colonial version of Sierra Leone History. Extant records clearly show that the term serr lyoa was already in use well before Pedro da ?intra got to this area
We have to first of all determine the parameters of the area of discourse, Freetown or the Sierra Leone Colony.
The chief area of our concern is the Sierra Leone Peninsula that is backed by a stretch of mountains, remarkably visible to ships approaching the coastal area of present day Sierra Leone. It is those mountains that attracted the attention of early Portuguese voyagers to this area in the early fifteenth century and they nicknamed the area sera lyoa {lion (looking) mountains} We are not certain which of the early Portguese voyagers first used this name but it was certainly not Pedro de ?intra who claimed to have done so and whose name has been unfortunately stuck in the minds of Sierra Leoneans as subsequent writers believed him without question. His name therefore came to be seen as a point of departure in the writing of the colonial version of Sierra Leone History. Extant records clearly show that the term serr lyoa was already in use well before Pedro da ?intra got to this area
| Author: C. Magbaily Fyle |
| Publisher: Independently Published |
| Publication Date: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 172 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: NA |
| ISBN-13: 9798390462911 |
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