Freetown’s property tax is designed to plug funding gap: how Sierra Leone’s capital went about it

Property taxes remain one of the most underperforming sources of revenue for urban development across Africa. One reason is that they are often opposed by the economic elites and large property owners ...
The Conversation

From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?

Milo Gough has received funding from the AHRC through CHASE DTP. Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it ...
The New York Times

She Is Africa’s First Heat Officer. Can She Make Her City Livable?

Eugenia Kargbo remembers when Sierra Leone’s capital was greener and cooler, and is now trying to help the city combat rising temperatures. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Freetown, Sierra Leone.