Essay from the year 2004 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3 (=75%), University of Cape Town (Department of History / Faculty of Humanities), course: Africa: colonial and post-colonial encounters, language: English, abstract: This work is an essay written for an undergraduate course in African history at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and deals with the social origins of the guerilla war in Sierra Leone.