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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Sierra Leone (descendants) union of Port Harcourt, 1933-85: a research note |
Author: | Dixon-Fyle, Mac |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | Africana Research Bulletin |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 76-82 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | immigrants Sierra Leoneans |
Abstract: | The Sierra Leone Union of Port Harcourt, which later amended its name to become the Sierra Leone Descendants Union, was established in the early 1930s by a group of Sierra Leoneans who had come to Port Har-court either to serve the colonial government or to preach, to trade or to work as artisans. Basically welfarist in approach, members sought to cater for the spiritual and material needs of the group, to protect Saro (Sierra Leonean) interests against infringements at the hands of the locals, and to retain links with the homeland. The Sierra Leone Union, its activities, its place and its function over the years, can best be approached within the framework of two chronological referents: from the early 1930s to the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970), and from the civil war to the present. |