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2004-2006 Chevy Silverado / GMC Sierra ACCESS Lorado Tonneau Cover Fits 5.8′ Bed $471.75 |
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2007-2012 Chevy Silverado / GMC Sierra ACCESS Lorado Tonneau Cover Fits 5.8′ Bed $471.75 |
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Verizon Wireless Sierra Broadband Access AirCard 595 (AC595) Modem w/CD $20.00 |
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HIGH SIERRA BACKPACK COLLEGE SCHOOL ACCESS PACK UNISEX 5462 SPORT CAMPING TRAVEL $40.00 |
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High Sierra Access Daypack Laptop Backpack Red Orange $56.89 |
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SIERRA 411A INTERNET SERVICE MONITOR DIGITAL CHANNEL ACCESS TEST OSCILLOSCOPE $73.02 |
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High Sierra A.T. Gear Access 26″ Wheeled Duffel 2 Colors $91.99 |
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Tonno Pro Tonneau Cover 99-06 GMC SIERRA TRUCK 6.5′ S/B $269.00 |
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07 – 12 GMC Sierra Roll Up Tonneau Cover 5′ 8″ Bed – Access Lorado $471.75 |
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Access Vanish Roll Up Tonneau for 88-98 Silverado/Sierra Stepside Box (Bolt On) $388.45 |
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2007-2011 GMC SIERRA Tonno Pro Tri Fold Soft Tonneau Bed Cover 6.5′ $269.00 |
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2007-2012 GMC SIERRA Tonno Pro Tri Fold Soft Tonneau Bed Cover 6.5′ $269.00 |
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SIERRA 411A INTERNET SERVICE MONITOR DIGITAL CHANNEL ACCESS TEST OSCILLOSCOPE $65.00 |
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04-07 GMC SIERRA Crew Cab 5.7′ Tonno Pro Tri Fold Tonneau Bed Cover $269.00 |
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High Sierra Access Laptop Backpack, Black Armor $40.00 |
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Access Lorado Roll Up Tonneau Cover for 2007-2012 Silverado/Sierra 6.6′ Bed $471.75 |
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2007-2011 GMC SIERRA Tonno Pro Tonneau Bed Cover 5.8′ $269.00 |
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SIERRA 411A Digital Channel Access Test Set $95.95 |
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Access Lorado Roll Up Tonneau Cover 88-00 Silverado/Sierra 8′ Bed (Also Dually) $481.10 |
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Access Lorado Roll Up Tonneau Cover for 73-87 Silverado/Sierra 8′ Bed $481.10 |
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04-07 GMC SIERRA Crew Cab 5.7′ Tonno Pro Tonneau Cover $195.00 |
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07-11 GMC SIERRA Tonno Pro Tonneau Bed Cover 5.8′ $195.00 |
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Access Lorado Roll Up Tonneau Cover for 88-98 Silverado/Sierra Stepside Box $471.75 |
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New Access Tonneau Cover Chevy Truck Silverado Pickup Sierra Chevrolet 1500 Car $462.40 |
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High Sierra A. T. Gear Ultimate Access 26″ Wheeled Duffel Bag Backpack Luggage $101.97 |
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07 – 12 GMC Sierra Roll Up Tonneau Cover 6′ 6″ Bed – Access Lorado $471.75 |
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99 – 07 GMC Sierra Roll Up Tonneau Cover 6′ 6″ Bed – Access Lorado $471.75 |
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Access Lorado Roll Up Tonneau for 2001-2005 Silverado / Sierra Composite $471.75 |
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07 – 11 GMC Sierra 5′ 8″ Bed NewBody – Access LiteRider Roll Up Tonneau Cover $396.95 |
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High Sierra Access Computer Laptop Backpack Navy Blue $56.89 |
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Access Truck Bed Mat 07-11 Silverado/Sierra 6.6′ Bed $127.46 |
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Access Truck Bed Mat 99-07 Silverado/Sierra 6.6′ Bed $127.46 |
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Access Truck Bed Mat 04-07 Silverado/Sierra 5.8′ Bed $127.46 |
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Access Truck Bed Mat 07-11 Silverado/Sierra 8′ Bed $144.46 |
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Access Truck Bed Mat 99-07 Silverado/Sierra 8′ Bed $144.46 |
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Access Lorado Roll Up Tonneau Cover for 2001-2007 Silverado/Sierra 8′ Bed $481.10 |
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High Sierra Access Daypack Laptop Backpack Gray Black $56.89 |
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Access ToolBox Roll Up Cover 07-11 GMC Sierra 6’6″ Bed $453.90 |
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Access Vanish Tonneau Cover for 2007-2012 Chevy/GMC SIlverado/Sierra 6.6′ Bed $388.45 |
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Vanish Roll Up Cover 07-11 GMC Sierra 6’6″ Bed $372.05 |
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Vanish Roll Up Cover 07-11 GMC Sierra 8′ Bed $380.53 |
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Vanish Roll Up Cover 73-87 GMC Sierra 6’6″ Bed $372.05 |
Sierra Access
Is regional Decentralization and a Dual Chambers Polity the Sierra Leonean Panacea?
Since attaining independence, Africa and Sierra Leone in particular has been plagued by a regime of political instability, economic decline and a myriad of other challenges. Some of these challenges, as in the case of countries like Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda and Congo have led to deterioration in the political administrative infrastructures such that some of these states became failed states and went to war.
On the other hand there are certain African states, Like Ghana and Guinea to name a few, with similar or even worse challenges that have ridden the tide and not deteriorated into failed states nor gone to war. A review of this state of Africa has therefore led to specific conceptual and structural questions on which this article will dwell and use Sierra Leone as a case study.
Michael F Lofchie in an article in The Journal of Modern African Studies,volume6,issue01 of 1968 writes “The subject-matter of African politics has always presented a special challenge and a special problem to political scientists, namely to develop a theory which would make sense of a vast, inchoate, and unfamiliar body of material. This problem has become particularly acute in the last year or two.
The rapid deterioration of African political parties, a series of military coups, recurrent crises of national unity, and heightened tendencies towards anomic and violent behavior have not only cast doubt on previous assumptions as to the nature of African political life but have also led to a heightened mood of theoretical uncertainty among political scientists.”
Since Lofchie wrote that article, Sierra Leone had deteriorated from a country with a flourishing mining export economy and a functional infrastructure into a failed state and finally a 10 year war that saw some of the most gruesome atrocities committed. Now the picture, honestly the picture is changing again. If this change is to be sustainable, something has to be done to put in place the institutions that can sustain change and bring about progress. To put the correct institutions in place for Sierra Leone and her people to reach this change, certain conceptual and systemic questions have to be asked and answers to them found.
Why did Sierra Leone have to go so low and why did Ghana, a country whose economy had deteriorated well before Sierra Leone’s not gone to war? By 1974 Ghanaians were queuing for a pump of toothpaste in retail shops all over Ghana every morning and certain items like a bar of bath soap was a rare luxury for which one can establish a relationship with a lady if one is promiscuous.
In Sierra Leone ,on the other hand, in as much as there had been a gradual deterioration from 80s to 90s there had never been a period within that timeframe that people had to queue up for those basic items. Yet Sierra Leone sank into war whilst about the same period Ghanaians were experiencing recovery which toady has put Ghana on the pedestal of one of Africa’s rapid developing economies in Africa.
Well some schools of thought might argue that Ghana had her turn around after the Jerry Rawlings coup and the drastic actions of killings and all that took place. That of course is not the answer as mass killings anywhere have never been the answer to any social crisis. Another school of thought will also argue that Rawlings provided the kind of leadership for change. That argument, to some extent, holds but what about the mass of the people of Ghana’s will for and participation in the processes of change? Rawling’s rule as it was had the characteristics of a despot with a vision. He according to John L. Adedeji introduced a political change process that was “Bottom –up «that by implication involved all players in the Ghanaian society. Rawling’s leadership provided path to recovery for which he said in his take over speech “Fellow Ghanaians, the time has come for us to restructure this society in a real and meaningful democratic manner so as to ensure the involvement and active participation of the people in the decision-making process.”
In the case of Sierra Leone, since independence this active participation of the people in decision-making has been virtually absent and politics is an issue for a class of Sierra Leoneans from two main elite groups fighting for control, developing paternal relationships and using state coffers to ensure their stay in power whilst at the same time polarizing the nation along lines of ethnic and culture struggles. In the process thereof, power cults and socio-economic cartels had flourished at the detriment of the state.
The factors of this debilitating political situation started well before independence and became reinforced after the early death of the first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai and his succession by his half-brother, Sir Albert Margai whose tenure saw the consolidation of the factors of socio-political division both from within and without the Sierra Leone Peoples Party.
Prior to Independence, the political elite in Sierra Leone had been in disarray and lacked a national ideology and agenda. Instead and in place was a regime of marriages of convenience and cross overs which has charactistically seen the political class become political prostitutes ready to inter into “political relationship with opponents” just for them to get access to the national cake. When such relationships fail to deliver, the same soon become vociferous critics of the status quo solely for the purpose of gaining power and doing what they had condemned or pointed out as wrong doings of the opponent. In this state of affairs the bulk of the people had become excluded from mainstream participation in the affairs of the state.
By default of this also, the bulk of the people have no access to benefits from the state except if they have relatives, region mates, tribesmen etc. in the system. In retrospect, this status quo has been the engine of corruption as those in power and access to state funds used those funds not only to enrich them but to sustain their support base, acting as lords over their fellow countrymen and women. Women in particular have been the most affected victims as they have had to enter into surreptitious relationships with those “Big men” to get access to resources they can use to sustain themselves and family relations.
A correlate product of this is that young and productive minds with on connections to these power cells were left to rot and many a young man had to run to greener pastures or become frustrated and finally either die or become social derelicts addicted to some drug or doing something funny that have led them to jail. It was this that provided the fodder for the unnecessary war that was fought from March 23rd, 1991 to January 6th 1999.
Why should Sierra Leone, a country where western education and culture first found roots in all British West Africa, also known as the Athens of West Africa, deteriorate to such a low level? Above all why should a neighboring country Guinea ,which started bankrupt and on a loan of 10 million Dollars from Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, after a controversial independence seen by France as an act of rebellious breakaway from the on the 2nd October 1958,be seemingly making more progress today.
Why with all the challenges and crisis, of far more greater proportion she had faced, guinea had never gone to war and do not ever think war as the option out of their challenges? What is it that led both the neighbors of Guinea’s m, Liberia and Sierra Leone to war?
Finding answers to these questions demand a thorough examination of the social dynamics in these countries. In Sierra Leone, as in Liberia, the conflicts that eventually galvanized to war were created by the social forces that evolved with a capitalization of those societies from exploitations of the resources after contact with the western and other world economies. In Sierra Leone the crisis itself is multifaceted beginning from the 1900s when “adventures” from the coastal British controlled colony were taken inland to trade with the “Natives”‘.
The words adventures and natives have been willfully used to signify the social stratifications under and through which the present modes of social thinking have begun. What were the key reasons why Sierra Leone had to go to war?
David Keen (2005) p.2 ,states “The difficulties in understanding the Sierra Leone reflect wider difficulties in understanding any contemporary civil conflict….Part of the problems has been that media accounts have almost always focused on the destruction of lives and property and on the consequences of violence(which can be relatively easily described and photographed) rather than on the causes(which are more difficult to record).This has tended to obscure the important question of how a phenomenon so destructive for so many ,so detrimental for the economy and so apparently pointless, can be allowed –indeed made-to happen, and often to persist for years or even decades.”
Keen further states that; “…, understanding Sierra Leone’s war means understanding its history and the grievances it generated.” In understanding this one is prone to ask, but why should the history be a factor to grievances and ultimately war? Keen further states ;”Some sources have suggested that the country’s abundant natural resources may have made grievances there particularly intense, because people were aware of the gap between well-being and natural wealth.”
These two proclamations by Keen are more or less a summary of the key underlying factors and forces that have shaped the destiny of Sierra Leone prior to and after independence. Instead of Sierra Leone consolidating into a nation-state to develop into a nation of singular social structure and culture, she has suffered the pain of developing states within the British political entity that carries the name Sierra Leone.
The war Sierra Leone, which was officially from March 23rd, 1991 when the first shots were fired at Bomaru up to January 2002 when the war was officially declared over, is an indicator and a reflection of the cumulative effects of unaddressed grievances that had existed for decades if not centuries in the political and economic development of Sierra Leone.
These political and social dynamics are to very large extent reflections of the imbalances resulting out of an uneven development and the laissez faire thus divide and rule governance system with which the colonial masters had governed the territory now called Sierra Leone from the period starting 1787 when the British abolitionists and Philanthropists established a settlement in Freetown up to the 27th, April 1961when independence was granted to that political entity.
A look at the time line of political and thence social developments in Sierra Leone within this period and a reflection on the events following the political independence from 1961 to the date the war started will give a clear picture of uneven developments as these were dictated by social forces operating within the given context and as it was determined by the available and prevailing social intellect and mind set.
A striking and outstanding feature of Sierra Leone’s political development is the uneven and long temporal space in between such developments in the former Colony a compared to the Protectorate. A look at the timeline of development in Sierra Leone quickly points that out. Also a look at this same timeline points to the unfair but planned development of a class of few elites against a background of the bulk of non-elite class who are virtually excluded from mainstream polity. From 1787 to 1902 education, as it was left in the hands of missions was only concentrated in the western area which was the former colony.
Thus well-grounded elite had been developed in the colony. This elite, though in the minority had a long period span of westernization close to a century whilst the people in the former protectorate were still using their traditional socio-educational such as the Secret societies to prepare their young for adulthood. Where there was any form of administration it is either in the known system or done with a mixture of Arabic educational influence from the early interaction with Islam before the advent of the coastal colony.
Alongside this disparity was another which went unnoticed but which up till now is having a marked impact on the national mind set. This was the seeming refusal of northern peoples to take advantage of western education. The reason for this seeming refusal had a long standing root dating back from the days of slavery. It should be noted that the Trans-Atlantic slavery effectively started in Sierra Leone when a British sea Captain, John Hawkins became the first slave-ship captain to bring Africans to the Americas. Hawkins was a religious gentleman who insisted that his crew “serve God daily” and «love another”. His ship, called “the good ship Jesus,” left the shores of his native England for Africa in October 1562. He arrived at Sierra Leone, and in a short time he had three hundred blacks in his possession. Hawkins claimed to have acquired them «partly by sword and partly by other means.
Thus it was the northern peoples that first suffered from this inhumane act which was to span over 450 years. As a result they have and in some cases still have their suspicions of the European and nay other light skinned race that they consider as stealers of people. Another side of the issue is that prior to the encounters with Europeans the same had suffered from the same acts of enslavement from earlier contact with Arabs and other North African traders who also embarked on the slave trade. Hence they have a name for whites and light skin people “Kohthi” a word widely used in West Africa to mean someone who takes away people.
As a matter of fact the very first Sierra Leonean to have had western education was a susu from Kambia, a relative of the Thorlu Bangura family who was taken away to Europe well before the advent of colonialism.
Further, the divide and rule system which took cognizance of the traditional ruling class and gave free upper hand to this class to perform the daily administration of state vis-à-vis providing priority education for this class alone has had a far reaching impact on the social group relations and hence mind set development of the body politic in Sierra Leone. This proxy governance and class development is still impacting the overall national and even political parties’ environments.
There is a general mistrust between the elites and non-elite classes and one result of this mistrust has been transformed into a political divide between the Sierra Leone People’s Party which is more of an elitist party and the All Peoples Congress which has a more mass non-elitist appeal.
This same divide has had a big impact also on the rural-Urban population distributions as grievances between and within rural environments have in most cases forced non-elite members of society to moves away to urban areas which are more cosmopolitan, free and secure. It is also an underlying factor for the mass movement away from agriculture, seen as a mere source of subsistence to Mining areas in search of the dream of wealth which inadvertently most never get.
About the Author
Leader and Director of Research and Development,ScanAfrik Consultancy & Gbakanda Designs.A screenplay writer,Teacher and web applications developer.He is also an expert in African socio-political and anthropoligical issues.
Originally from Sierra Leone in west Africa,he is now a naturalised Norwegian engeged in a number of projects that he will soon publish.Amongst them is an examination of the political history of Sierra Leone from 1950s to now and the raison d’etre for the 11 years war which was declared over in 2001.
Member and on of the Candidates for the Venstre(Liberal)party of Norway for the Lindås Municipality.Also a screenplay writer with a bias for plays with African background
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