Past and UPCOMING Events
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Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War
Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War is a display of 38 paintings and drawings documenting Sierra Leone’s decade long civil war. From 1991 to 2001, the people of Sierra Leone endured a brutal civil war ignored by most of the world. Thousands of innocents, especially children and babies, suffered horrific amputations, rape, mutilation and death. Over 50,000 people died in a conflict invisible to a world community distracted by war in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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Masking Spirits Across the Seas
The 21st Century African youth Movement is envisaging showcasing several significant masking traditions of the Mende people in the South and Eastern Provinces of Sierra Leone. These will be the Gorboi, Kongoli, Nafaiyeh, Jaweh Yafei and the women’s masking tradition, the Sowei.