Alghali, A MTuray, Edward D AThompson, Ekundayo J DKandeh, Joseph B A2015-01-202015-01-202005http://54.68.105.93:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/187Sierra 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.enhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0Open and Distance Learning (ODL)ReportOpen and Distance Learning (ODL)