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Article: Sierra Leone's king is crowned in Philadelphia
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- August 8, 1995
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Sherry Stone
Philadelphia Tribune, The
08-08-1995
Sierra Leone's king is crowned in Philadelphia.
For 5,000 years, kings have reigned in Sierra Leone in West Africa. Last Saturday, a prominent local attorney from the royal family of the Republic of Sierra Leone was crowned king in a unique public ceremony held at LaSalle College's Dan Rodden Theater in Philadelphia.
The event is usually held only in Sierra Leone, but was also held in the Delaware Valley as a symbol of a growing relationship with the United States and with African Americans.
His Serene Highness King Methuselah IV of the Kakua Chiefdom in Sierra Leone is a descendent from an unbroken line of kings that extends back 4,500 years ...