Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Public Archives of Sierra Leone

    • Postal Address:

      c/o Fourah Bay College
      Freetown
      Sierra Leone

    • Telephone:

      227509

    • E-mail:

      moore-albert20@hotmail.com

    • Director:

      Albert Moore, Archivist, (Prof. Akintola J.G Wyse, Honorary Govt. Archivist)

    • Year founded:

      1965

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Business records
      Government records
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs

    • Size:

      80,000 linear metres

    • Holdings:

      The records cover many aspects of Sierra Leone history from the 18th century to the contemporary period. Pre-colonial holdings include documents pertaining to the activities of the Sierra Leone Company, repatriated Africans, the Crown Colony administration and relationships with neighbouring African peoples; original copies of treaties and agreements, birth and death registers (1858-1893), anti-slavery and abolitionist materials, travelogues, decree books, and intelligence diaries by European and African travellers. Colonial and post-colonial materiasl include official correspondence, district records for the twelve districts, the Freetown City Council and Rural Areas between 1930 and 1964, maps, and photographs.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      After the completion of an application form, users are issued Reader's Ticket valid for a year.

    • Access restrictions:

      30 years

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: