Sierra Leone is home to about sixteen different ethnic groups, each with its own traditions, stories, and art forms. The two largest are the Mende and the Temne, but every single group adds a flavor ...

Over the centuries, Sierra Leone has been a place of refuge. The Limba peoples were drawn by whispers of a land untouched by turmoil in Africa’s Sahelian kingdoms, and other tribes set out for there ...

We write in advance of the 74th pre-session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (“the Committee”). We hope this submission will inform the Committee’s preparation of its list of ...

Sarah Culberson was adopted at birth by a white family in West Virgina. After searching for her birth parents, she learned that her birth father is a ruling member of the Mende Tribe in Bumpe, Sierra ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot Sunday on the UN ...