Education in Sierra Leone with Particular Reference to Open and Distance Learning and Information and Communication Technologies
Education in Sierra Leone with Particular Reference to Open and Distance Learning and Information and Communication Technologies

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2005
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Alghali, A M
Turay, Edward D A
Thompson, Ekundayo J D
Kandeh, Joseph B A
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Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver
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Abstract
Sierra Leone became a British Colony after Portuguese explorers became the first
Europeans to arrive in 1492. It gained independence in 1961 and became a
republic in 1971. The country has experienced a mixture of democratic, civilian
and military dictatorships in its 43 years of independence. Currently, civilian
democracy is the political dispensation. A devastating civil war, spanning 11 years,
ended in 2002. The main reasons put forward by the perpetrators of the civil war
were lack of social-economic opportunities overall, lack of access by many citizens
to what economic life there was, and tyrannical political rule. Today, Sierra Leone
enjoys a liberalised economy and relative peace.
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Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
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Sierra Leone