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Conflict and Collaboration: Sierra Leone and Her West African Neighbours, 1961-1980

This article employs a regional, in contradistinction to a continental or global approach to the study of Sierra Leone's foreign policy in the period 1961-1980. In this context, region refers to the sixteen West African states which are members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)1 . The choice of framework and the level of analysis is intentional for a number of cogent reasons. First, the environment in which African states operate is limited by their military and economic weakness2. Most of them have underdeveloped and dependent economic systems and rely on the export of…