REPLY: Background to probs in Liberia and Sierra Leone

H-AFRICA---Mel Page (AFRICA@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU)
Fri, 25 Aug 1995 19:55:38 GMT-5

Date sent: Thu, 24 Aug 1995
From: William Storey, Harvard University
<storey@husc.harvard.edu>

There are a couple of canonical survey texts which will provide a good
introduction - Gus Liebenow's *Liberia* and Christopher Fyfe's *Sierra
Leone*. For an introduction to the current crisis, a good place to
start would be to look at the back issues of West Africa magazine.