The Leone Connect Journal
Books, ideas, craft and culture—considered carefully.
Read essays, interviews, practical publishing guidance, excerpts and informed perspectives connected to Leone Connect’s books, authors and creative programmes.
From Sierra Leone to the World: Why Our Stories Matter
Sierra Leonean stories deserve the care, structure and reach to travel. Leone Connect Publishing is building a bridge between local creative authority and readers around the world.
What Responsible Publishing Adds Between Manuscript and Reader
Selection begins the publisher’s work. Editorial development, rights, design, production, metadata and long-term stewardship turn a private manuscript into a dependable public edition.
Excerpt Spotlight: Citizenship Reclaimed
A guided introduction to the approved Chapter Twenty-One excerpt, where private coping becomes an organized public claim and citizenship becomes standing.
In Conversation with Bhai-Dhawa Sesay: Why the Five Forces Must Be Read Together
An editorial conversation about the connected Five C framework, the unknown-citizen test and the practical difference between survival and civic surrender.
When Resilience Begins to Protect Institutional Failure
Communities should not abandon the adaptations that help them survive. They can preserve those solutions while documenting the failure that made them necessary.
The Unknown Citizen Test
A practical test of citizenship asks whether a person without wealth, influence or a private intermediary can still receive fair treatment under the same rules.
Why Recognised Public Failures Can Remain Durable
Recognition alone does not create records, collective capacity or sustained accountability. The harder question is what prevents knowledge from producing correction.
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