Word: siaka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spotlight of publicity turned briefly on Sierra Leone earlier this month, when the Organization of African Unity met in the tiny (pop. 4 million) West African state and installed its President, Siaka Stevens, as the O.A.U.'s chairman for the coming year. But when the big bash was over, Sierra Leone was left with more problems than ever: an authoritarian government, a languishing economy, all-pervasive corruption and $200 million in bills from the summit conference. As TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack E. White discovered during a visit to Sierra Leone, the country's plight is disturbingly similar...
...Siaka Massaquoi, a member of the Sierra Leone Students Association, said Pan-Africanism "is not a new or impossible idea." Massaquoi said unification occurred in the old African empires, adding that when they fell, colonialism began...