ABSTRACT
Despite an abundance of natural resources, a geographic position directly on the Atlantic Ocean and its history as the former capital of the British empire in West Africa, Sierra Leone has failed to flourish economically, and from 1991 to 1996 was ravaged by civil war. Only since the 1996 election of the democratic government of Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has the country been able to take steps towards reforming its domestic institutions with the prospect of improving living standards.
