The Bite of the Mango more books like this

by Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland

A courageous biography by a woman from Sierra Leone who at 12 was tortured and lost her hands to child soldiers, her subsequent life in refugee camps, begging in Freetown and her eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull her life back together.

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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa more books like this

by Daniel Bergner

A journalist reports on his visit to the distressed country of Sierra Leone, where he sees the destruction wrought by years of civil war.

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Where Witch Birds Fly more books like this

by Eugene Harkins

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Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives Through War and Peace in Sierra Leone more books like this

by Chris Coulter

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Magic and Warfare: Appearance and Reality in Contemporary African Conflict and Beyond more books like this

by Nathalie Wlodarczyk

This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess its impact on behaviour in conflict. In the last fifteen years, rituals designed to imbue people with supernatural power and make them immune to enemy fire have been seen on battlefields across Africa. Wlodarczyk ...

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