History & Culture in Freetown

An Asante king spent four years in exile in a house on this very spot.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

One of the most important Krio heritage sites in the country.

One of the oldest brick structures in Freetown.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.