The book, published in the series "History of African Countries in Modern and Contemporary Times," is dedicated to the history of the relatively small country of West Africa - Sierra Leone. An amazing African ethnic group has developed here - Creoles, who back in the 19th century. mastered the achievements of European civilization. During the period of independence in Sierra Leone, the Westminster model of development and the one-party regime were tested, the country either followed the bourgeois model, or socialist ideas prevailed in its course.