#ExploreAfrica: The Sierra Leone Peace Museum
The Sierra Leone Peace Museum was created as the latest attempt to address the legacy of the civil war that ravaged the country. The Museum and Court both address the violence that Sierra Leoneans experienced and how that violence can be dealt with by institutions and society. CGTN visited the Museum to find out its impact on the Sierra Leoneans.
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SIERRA LEONE MUSEUM CEREMONY, Freetown, Part 2
Presentation of the newly-discovered photograph of Bai Bureh to the Sierra Leone Monuments & Relics Commission and the Bank of Sierra Leone by former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze.
SIERRA LEONE MUSEUM CEREMONY, Freetown, May 2013 - Part 1
Presentation of the newly-discovered photograph of Bai Bureh to the Sierra Leone Monuments & Relics Commission and the Bank of Sierra Leone by former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze.
SIERRA LEONE MUSEUM CEREMONY, Freetown, April 2013
Presentation of the newly-discovered photograph of Bai Bureh to the Sierra Leone Monuments & Relics Commission and the Bank of Sierra Leone by former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze.
UNVEILING PORTRAITS OF MARGAI & EASMON AT SIERRA LEONE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 2019
On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr unveiled portraits of Sir Milton Margai, the Father of Sierra Leone Indepenence, and Dr. M.C. F. Easmon, Founder of the Sierra Leone National Museum and the first Senior African Medical Doctor during the colonial period. The portraits, which are the outside wall of the museum facing Siaka Stevens Street and the Cotton Tree, were painted by the famous artist Alusine Bangura and commissioned by Gary Schulze, a former Peace Corps Volunteer and Honorary Paramount Chief of the Kagboro Chiefdom, Moyamba District. The portraits are illuminated at night. This Krio-version of the video is courtesy of African Young Voices (AYV).
UNVEILING PORTRAITS OF MARGAI & EASMON AT SIERRA LEONE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 2019
On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr unveiled portraits of Sir Milton Margai, the Father of Sierra Leone Indepenence, and Dr. M.C. F. Easmon, Founder of the Sierra Leone National Museum and the first Senior African Medical Doctor during the colonial period. The portraits, which are the outside wall of the museum facing Siaka Stevens Street and the Cotton Tree, were painted by the famous artist Alusine Bangura and commissioned by Gary Schulze, a former Peace Corps Volunteer and Honorary Paramount Chief of the Kagboro Chiefdom, Moyamba District. The portraits are illuminated at night. This video is courtesy of African Young Voices (AYV).
PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER RETURNS TO WAIAMA, SIERRA LEONE, 1994 (PART1)
Former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze returns to the village of Waiama where he stayed several days twenty five years before as the guest of Mr. Kaimapo who worked with him at the SierraLeone Museum in Freetown. Kaimapo retired to the village in the 1980's. It took two days to find the village since there were several villages by the same name. Schulze brought photos from 1962 with him and some of the people in the picture were still living in the village. Four months after this video was made, rebels attacked Waiama, killed everyone, and burned the village to the ground. Kaimapo was not there when it happened.
This video has been uploaded with Freemake Video Converter
SALONE CULTURAL EVENT, Siaka Stevens Stadium, Freetown, May 2016
This cultural event, sponsored by the Sierra Leone Tourist Board and the Ministry of Tourism & Cultural Affairs, took place at Siaka StevensStadium in April, 2016, in conjunction with the 55th Anniversary of Sierra Leone’s Independence. The program featured hundreds of Sierra Leoneans including secret society masqueraders (debuls), acrobats, dancers, stilt-walkers, drummers, and snake charmers. The event was videotaped by Former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze.
INSTALLATION OF GARY SCHULZE AS HONORARY PARAMOUNT CHIEF OF KAGBORO CHIEFDOM, 2013 (PART 1)
On May 3, 2013, following official approval from the Minister of Local Government & Rural Development, former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze was installed by Paramount Chief Charles Caulker, Chairman of the Council of Sierra Leone Paramount Chiefs, as Honorary Paramount Chief of Kagboro Chiefdom, Moyamba District. The two-day event, held at the town of Shenge, was presided over by Paramount Chief Doris Lenga Koroma and attended by the Minister of Tourism & Cultural Affairs, Peter Bayuku Konteh, Moyamba District officials, Member of Parliament Veronica Sesay, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mrs. Shirley Gbujama, the Deputy Peace Corps Country Director, Section Chiefs, Village Chiefs, many residents of Kagboro Chiefdom, and several current and past Peace Corps Volunteers..
The honor was conferred on Mr. Schulze in consideration of his relentless contributions to the development of Kagboro Chiefdom in particular and the nation as a whole. According to the citation, Mr. Schulze is Here in After To Be Called Chief Pieh Gbabior Caulker II of Kagboro Chiefdom.
PEACE CONCERT SIERRA LEONE 2018
PEACE CONCERT 2018 Powered by Rapaport Group in Collaboration with Artistes for Peace and Sierra Leone ALL-STARS
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Sierra Leone Cultural dance Troupe..
PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER RETURNS TO WAIAMA, SIERRA LEONE, 1994 (PART2)
Former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze returns to the village of Waiama where he stayed several days twenty five years before as the guest of Mr. Kaimapo who worked with him at the SierraLeone Museum in Freetown. Kaimapo retired to the village in the 1980's. It took two days to find the village since there were several villages by the same name. Schulze brought photos from 1962 with him and some of the people in the picture were still living in the village. Four months after this video was made, rebels attacked Waiama, killed everyone, and burned the village to the ground. Kaimapo was not there when it happened.
This video has been uploaded with Freemake Video Converter
Freetown museum
Sierra Leone 2018
PARADE OF LANTERNS, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, APRIL 2011
The Parade of Lanterns was held as part of Sierra Leone's 50th Anniversary of Independence celebrations. Former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze videotaped the parade from the steps of the Sierra Leone National Museum as the revelers made theire way down Pademba Road.
This video has been uploaded with Freemake Video Converter
57 Years of Discrimination Against Krios in Sierra Leone
A presentation on how the laws of SL discriminate against the Krios. For 57 years, both the APC and SLPP governments have failed to act on this matter and thus discriminated against the Krios. We need the support of peace loving Sierra Leoneans to petition to solve this problem. Failure to address it in SL, the option is ECOWAS.
SIERRA LEONE MUSEUM, Dedication of Sembe Pieh Statue, 1994 - Part 2 of 3
In October 1994 the Mandela Youth Organization presented a statue of Sembe Pieh, Hero of The Amiistad Revolt, to the Sierra Leone National Museum. The unveiling ceremony was held in the backyard of the museum and a number of V.I.P.'s attended. The keynote speaker was the then Minister of Tourism & Culture, Hindolo Trye. The Minister used the occasion to attack a journalist for writing a controversial article about then Head Of State Captain Valentine Strasser's trip to Europe.
This video was recorded by the SLBC.
SHENGE, Sierra Leone - Visit Of U. S. Ambassador, May 2016
On May 6, 2016, U.S. Ambassador John Hoover traveled on the Embassy speedboat to Shenge with former Peace Corps Volunteer Gary Schulze who was installed in 2013 as Honorary Paramount Chief Pieh Gbabyior Caulker II of Kagboro Chiefdom. The visit was at the invitation of Paramount Chief Doris Lenga Gbabyior Caulker II. Hundred of citizens of the chiefdom came out to greet the Ambassador and to thank him for U.S. assistance to Sierra Leone and for all of his efforts in helping the country combat the recent Ebola epidemic. A ceremony was held at the Court Barri presided over by the Hon. Charles Rogers, Deputy Minister of Fisheries & Marine Resources. Speakers at the event included Paramount Chief Caulker, Paramount Chief Foday Gulama of Kaiyamba Chiefdom, the Hon. Victoria Seisay of Moyamba District, Gary Schulze, and Mrs. Lucy Sumner, President of The Magic Penny.
USA: KURT SCHORK MEMORIAL SERVICE
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Friends and colleagues of the Reuters war correspondent killed in Sierra Leone last month gathered in Washington D.C. on Thursday to commemorate his life.
Fifty-three year old Schork and 32-year old, Miguel Gil Moreno, who was a cameraman from Associated Press Television News, were killed on May 24 in an ambush by Sierra Leone rebels while reporting on the West African nation's civil war.
Schork had spent more than 10 years reporting on conflicts around the world, especially in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
At the auditorium of the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. on Thursday, friends, family and colleagues commemorated the full life of celebrated journalist, Kurt Schork.
The daytime service was held to remember a man who - his former employers say - helped make a difference in the world with his graphic portrayal of the horror of war.
Reuters Video News cameraman Mark Chisholm and Reuters stills photographer Yannis Behrakis were also caught in the ambush.
Chisholm suffered a hand injury but attended the service with his arm in a sling.
Another cameraman, Miguel Gil Moreno, who worked for Associated Press Television News, was killed in the attack.
Reuters Editor-in-chief Geert Linnebank said Schork was a modest man, with no self-indulgence, no exhibitionism and no gratuitous heroism.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Kurt the pragmatist knew that if his by-line did not gain fame with the broad public, it really did register with those of influence and power. And, as an idealist, Kurt sensed that if his reporting of the dark forgotten places that attracted him like a magnet that that reporting could help shape events and actions too, that it would on occasion dispel lethargy and strengthen resolve, and lighten the burden of those without power or voice.
SUPER CAPTION: Geert Linnebank, Reuters Editor-in-Chief
At the service, Schork was praised for his sense of compassion for the people of Bosnia and other war-ravaged countries.
One of the most famous incidents in his life was when he rushed to the aid of a woman wounded during an attack on a funeral in Sarajevo in August 1992.
U-S Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, attended the service, as he knew Schork well from the war in Bosnia.
Holbrooke was the diplomat who brokered an accord in late 1995 which helped bring about peace in the region.
Holbrooke said Schork succeeded in making the difference.
He also said Schork wanted the world to know how stupid and how senseless war was.
SOUNDBITE (English)
Kurt believed if he shone the flashlight of truth, truth in the form of facts, as Kurt presented them in his precise and sparse style, then the world would not be able to ignore indefinitely what was happening. Bosnia proved him right. His reporting was read around the world by millions who, because he wrote for a wire service, rarely if ever knew his name. His stories moved people to anger, they affected leaders and ultimately, belatedly, they helped rouse governments to action.
SUPER CAPTION: Richard Holbrooke, U-S Ambassador to the U-N
Photos of Schork were enlarged and displayed around the memorial service venue - a reminder of his efforts, his great achievements and his great spirit which will be remembered.
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Mi24 HIND Sierra Leone 1995/96
A few minutes of mi24 chopper video from Sierra Leone 1995/96.
Music performed by The Persuaders Duo from Sydney 2010. They are available to perform at private functions or clubs.... contact Gary Shaw: 0425 282 893
Sierra Leone pastor unearths massive 706-carat diamond
A pastor working in the mines of eastern Sierra Leone has unearthed a 706-carat diamond. Experts say the stone could rank as the 10th largest ever found. The huge diamond was discovered by Emmanuel Momoh, one of thousands of Sierra Leoneans who seek their fortunes in the informal mining sector that dominates the diamond-rich Kono region. This is the biggest diamond find since 1971. The stone was presented to the country's President Ernest Bai Koroma.