... on two contemporary novels of the African diaspora: Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me . Narrating local forms of survival in post–civil war Sierra Leone, these novels use animist modes of consciousness to theorize the collective trauma...

... nation. I am thinking of contem porary Sierra Leone, where, according to M atthew J. Christensen, "the language of inequality [in the context o f postcolonial African political struggles] continues to revolve around the metaphors of eating and, by extension, cannibalistic consumption." Christensen...

... ders o f Sierra Leone and Liberia, w h o was forced in to exile d u rin g Sierra Leone's civil w a r.13 Solno's songs on her autobiographically inspired album M y Life com bine a w ide range of m usical references, Instrum ents, and styles, fro m Fela K uti-esque A fro p o p , to U.S. inflected Aretha...

... z : F e stsch rift fü r G u n th e r Teu b ne r (Berlin: De G ruyter Recht, 2009), 375-93. See also Sara Kendall, "Contested Jurisdictions: Legitim acy and Governance at the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Ph.D. diss,, U niversity of California, Berkeley, 2009). 2 For the classic legal positivist...

... on the Rights o f the Child (2000), the Freetown tribunals in Sierra Leone (2004 05), the Charles Taylor trial (2007-10, administered by the Special Court for Sierre Leone), and m ost recently the International Criminal Court trial of Thomas Lubanga (2009-present). Am idst all of this publicity in inter­...

... A frica, places like Gallinas, Sherbro, and Sierra Leone. Further, it is pu rsuit by a B ritish ship 9 6 E n g lish Lan g u ag e N otes 52.2 Fa l l / W inter 2 0 1 4 th a t results in the greatest loss to black life de picted in th is novel. Six hundred weakened slaves in the hold o f the V ulture are th...