Post-Independence+Conflict

Vanessa __ Post Independence of Sierra Leone __

Thesis: Sierra Leone's era of post independence was brutal to the country

__ The Beginning of a New Government __

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 * At first, worries about tribal war between the Mende and Temne
 * Political division is also ethnic division
 * All People's Congress was a Temne based party
 * Economy is devastated by the leaving of the British
 * Agriculture
 * Siaka Stevens is elected prime minister in 1967
 * Military coup ousted Stevens a few months after he took
 * Lansana Government toppled
 * Previous government replaced by National Reform Council
 * In 1968 the Parliamentary government forcefully returns to power

__ Stevens as the Head of the Republic __
 * A coup was attempted in 1971
 * In 1971, Sierra Leone was declared a republic
 * Unrest follows this period
 * Temne join Mende
 * Stevens gets the Temne on his side
 * Stevens ends ethnic unrest
 * Sierra Leone Labor Congress
 * Sierra Leone Alliance Movement
 * Terrible economy
 * Diamonds and corruption

__ Republic Loses Democracy __

__ Steven's Reign Ends __
 * The 1973 election
 * Sierra Leone People's Party
 * Stevens handles another coup in 1974
 * National election of May 1977
 * A new constitution in 1978
 * The 1982 presidential election
 * //The Tablet// in 1984


 * Stevens ways in refusing to retire
 * Bitter Retirement
 * Major General Joseph Momoh

__ References __ · Sanford J. Ungar (1985) //Africa The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent,// New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.

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