The social structure in Sierra Leone before imperialism was very well structured. However once imperialism hit the social structure fell apart. But once imperialism was over Sierra Leone tried to pick themselves up to try to evolve their social structure to a more modern standard.
BEFORE:
There are somewhere around fifteen and twenty ethnic gatherings in Sierra Leone. Relations have been by and large warm among them, and Sierra Leone has to a great extent kept away from the racial strain normal for different parts of the world. Sierra Leonean culture is in a few ways a stratified one. The customary tip top families are the individuals who can follow plunge (typically through the father's line) to a warrior or seeker who initially …show more content…
Ladies are the foundation of Sierra Leonean work. Men do the physically serious work of clearing fields and furrowing swamps, yet planting, reaping, weeding, gathering wood, cooking, cleaning, promoting, and tyke consideration are obligations regularly bore by ladies. Youthful youngsters, particularly young ladies, are urged to help their guardians with minor family unit errands and homestead work, and right on time in life take pride in their capacity to add to the welfare of the family unit. The relative status of ladies is somewhat incomprehensible. At first glance, they appear to have low status—ladies in fact live under the power of the men they wed, have less lawful rights, less formal training, and lower education rates. Yet in all actuality, ladies' relationship to men is more integral than subordinate, because of the extensive force and solidarity increased through the aggregate shaped by the close general participation in the ladies' Bundu or Sande social orders.Despite the fact that some have brought up that the ladies' social orders stratify as much as they bind together, others have noticed how they give generous assets and abilities that permit ladies to freely oversee issues and control their lives. A general public can, for instance, …show more content…
There are a wide variety of local and international NGOs who compete for funding from international donors in order to implement projects in economic and infrastructural development, health and sanitation, agriculture, and education. Most of their programs are "vertical," so called because they are designed and funded by external agencies according to Western priorities. Since 1991, international relief agencies have become an even bigger presence, bringing aid to Sierra Leonean refugees and internally displaced people who have fled the violence surrounding their homes.Many schools outside Freetown (both primary and secondary) have been closed since the beginning of the 1991 conflict. There has thus arisen some social concern over what the effects may be of a generation raised without access to formal education. This is one advantage recognised by refugees who have crossed over into Guinea and Liberia—relief agencies usually provide free schooling for refugee children and youth. The United Nations estimates that Sierra Leone has the highest death rate in the world, and the second highest infant morality rate (195 out of every 1,000 infants die within a year of birth). Life expectancy at birth in 1995 was only 34.1 years, down significantly from previously improving figures.Even