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Land, Identity and Power in Sierra Leone, from the Slave Trade to the Blood Diamonds. - Sierra Leone, an ancient Portuguese discovering (1462), is a small country in West African Sub - saharian Region. The British involved it in the so called slave trade; in 1787 they founded a colony for the freed slaves, Freetown, and then opened in it the Fourah Bay College (1827): it was the most important university of the whole West Africa and this is why Sierra Leone was known in Europe as the Athens of Africa. Thanks to its climate and vegetation, and its underground resources, the Country is today called the Switzerland of Africa. Unfortunately, it's not deeply known by European or Italian geography; indeed it is remembered only for the last war (1991-1999). But the origins of the "civil war" are not simply depending on ethnic causes: on the contrary, Sierra Leone's historical, economic and political aspects can show how globalized the war was and how many international actors took part in that so called interregional modern conflict
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