Word: siaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political contact with Sierra Leone. For the next five years, he served in Geneva as assistant director general of the World Health Organization, but continued to watch the political situation in Sierra Leone. In 1970, with power in the hands of an old political ally, Dr. Siaka Stevens, he reasoned that the time was right for him to return to Sierra Leone for good. Karefa-Smart smiles at his own innocence now when he says," I thought I was getting to the age when you could retire...
...loathing of Black African nations for the white-supremacist enclave of Rhodesia has often been stated-but never quite so bitingly as it was last week when tiny Sierra Leone announced its first list of national awards and honors. A spokesman for President Siaka Stevens, recalling that the country's 19th century nickname was "the white man's grave" because of Sierra Leone's hordes of malaria-bearing mosquitos, said that among the honors would be a Medal of the Mosquito, for conspicuous gallantry. Why? Because the vicious little pests prevented white men from permanently settling...