Sierra Leone beyond the Lome Peace Accord

192 Pages·2010·1.26 MB·English

by  Marda Mustapha

Sierra Leone beyond the
Lomé Peace Accord
Edited by Marda Mustapha
and Joseph J. Bangura
sierra leone beyond the lomé peace accord
Copyright © Marda Mustapha and Joseph J. Bangura, 2010.
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To Hajaratu Yabome, Joseph, Josratu, Jaribu, Jabari;
to Eric and Doris Mustapha for their sacrifice;
and to the memory of Abdul Nafieu Mustapha and the victims and
survivors of the Sierra Leone Civil War
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Prologue ix
Introduction 1
Marda Mustapha and Joseph J. Bangura
Part I Destination Lomé
1 Sierra Leone beyond Lomé: Challenges and Failures 17
Tunde Zack-Williams
2 The Anatomy of Peacekeeping: ECOMOG’s Role
in the Sierra Leone Civil War 35
Joseph J. Bangura
3 The 1999 Lomé Peace Accord and Child Combatants:
For Di People? For Di Pikin? Or for the International
Community? 49
Robert Tynes and Clarke Speed
4 Shifting Priorities in Child Protection in Sierra
Leone since Lomé 69
Susan Shepler
Part II Beyond Lomé
5 Article 27: Citizens, Refugees, and Relief along the
Sierra Leone-Guinea Border 85
M. Douglas Henry
6 The Role of NGOs in the Democratization Process
in Postwar Sierra Leone 97
Fredline A. O. M’Cormack-Hale
7 Sierra Leone’s Development Challenges 117
Victor A. B. Davies
vi   Contents
8 Peacebuilding and Human Security in Postwar
Sierra Leone: A Critical Analysis 133
Earl Conteh-Morgan
9 Global Inequalities and Peace in Postwar Sierra Leone 145
Marda Mustapha
Afterword: The Future of Sierra Leone 161
Dick Simpson
Contributors 173
Index 177
Acknowledgments
The idea of writing a book on postwar Sierra Leone was born at an annual
meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) in San Francisco in 2006.
The editors mulled the notion over dinner, and the idea blossomed as a
possibility when we put out the call for papers via e-mail. Except for one
negative response, we received positive reaction from scholars across the
globe. It is fascinating to note that we do not know some of the great con-
tributors to this volume personally, yet we communicated regularly via
e-mail. Our thanks go to this remarkable crop of distinguished scholars for
their trenchant contributions and blazing, sagacious insights.
Obviously, the book could not have come to fruition without the help,
nudging, and encouragement from a number of colleagues. At Kalamazoo
College, Joseph would like to thank Michael A. McDonald, Ahmed Hussen,
Kiran Cunningham, Charlene Boyer Lewis and members of the history
department. At the College of Saint Rose, Marda would like to thank Jenise
Depinto, Keith Haynes, and Carl Swidorsky, and, at Northern Arizona Uni-
versity, Carol Thompson.
We would also like to thank family members for creating the impera-
tive, space, and inspiration to undertake such a prodigious task: Hajaratu
Yabome Jusuf Bangura, Joseph, Josratu, Jaribu, Jabari and Rahman Mus-
tapha Bangura; Catherine Laverley, Eric Mustapha Jr., Eleanor Michael
and Andrew Pessima, Francis and Emily Baion, Dorica Richter, Momoh,
Mamie-Kema, Torlo, Pitchounette, Erica, Sharron, Nevylle, and Eric III.
Finally, our special thanks go to Laura E. Lancaster, editorial assistant
at Palgrave Macmillan, for her patience and support. We thank Professor
Cecil Blake for serving as discussant on the ASA panel that set the stage for
the writing of this book. We also thank Abioseh Porter and Onipede Hollist
for their invaluable service, and the anonymous readers for their critical
comments on the manuscript.
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Prologue
I came to this land of
Kutuje
To see for myself
The truth of the
Rumoured wailings.
—Ola Rotimi, The Gods Are Not to Blame
The rock we pound our clothes on
by the waterside
will cleanse our soul at dawn
For last night
at Dante’s peak
up against the Iroko tree
we witnessed the red hot lava gushing upwards,
after we waved our white cloths for peace
after the marauders and the plunderers
had ransacked and pillaged our village paths
We faded away, unhurriedly
But we came back after the storm
after the swarming bees had drifted away
to drink lemongrass, tea-bush
and ginger beer
—Ahmed Koroma, “Limbo of the Patriarchs”