for chaos because of our quest to take control of institutions and replicating their businesses. Dependency on aid, debt and increasing poverty became the order of the day in the absence of greater economic and political integration. While we should have been steadfast and persevered as a nation, we became divided politically, tribally and socially which started to erode our democratic process, structures and security. Many times we have made bad and unpatriotic statements on past leaders their effigy destroyed or burnt to ashes; mocked and scorned by the very people they use to govern. Not a very healthy signal for our unity and reflections into the future. But most of their memories have survived the test of times like many in other African countries. In the new African renaissance in general and Sierra Leone in particular, we must now place great emphasis on the presentation of history. Our history needs to be rewritten as the history of our society, not as the story of Diasporas adventures. The Sierra Leonean society must be treated as enjoying its own integrity; its history must be a mirror of its society, and our Diasporas contacts and affiliation must find its place in this history only as an individual African experience, even if as a crucial one. That is to say, the Diasporas influence and connection needs to be assessed and judged from the point of view of the principles animating our society and from the point of view of the harmony and progress of our people’s trials, tribulations and developments up to date.
When history is presented in this way, it can become not only an account of how our very elite brothers and sisters who took over the leadership in steering our destiny became more Europeanized in thinking and