S7 E4: Sierra Leone,1789: the rise and fall of a British colony!
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English - April 27, 2021 15:23 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHistory Society & Culture blackhistory africanarchives africancultures africanheroes africanhistory blackgreatness greatafrica learnafricanculture sankofabird sankofatrips Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It’s a country whose recent history was overshadowed by a brutal civil war, but with a rich history, with one of the largest natural deep-water harbor in the world; it’s the first country to appoint a woman as a cabinet minister within Sub-Saharan Africa, in 1962, the first country in the world to invent a self-adhesive stamp, , and even more important, a country where women have started voting in 1792, 120 years before those in Britain, and almost 200 years before Switzerland.