This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bacheler. Here's John Bacheler.

West Africa. West Africa is in turmoil. A series of coups or blows or table-turning by military

figures have left capitals that were at one time voting with Democratic leadership.

Now at odds with each other and with ACO-WAS, which is the organization of this part of Africa,

the economic community of West African states. I welcome Gregory Kaplay, the Editor-in-Publisher

of Defense and Foreign Affairs. This time we're going to turn not to Frankofone Africa,

that would be Nishier Burkina Faso Mali Gabon. We're turning to Anglophone Africa, Sierra

Leone and Nigeria. We start with Sierra Leone. Gregory, you're reporting. Sierra Leone is now

with the same boss, same as the old boss, President Bio, who engineered a political sleight of hand

in late June and now appears to reap the benefits of no challenges. This is, once upon a time,

an English sovereign state that was very much part of the United Kingdom's imperial project.

Is that relationship broken? Does London still watch Sierra Leone? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Well, certainly London still does watch an attempt to help and guide Sierra Leone.

It withdrew from the earlier, more heavy-handed approach, but during the earlier medical epidemics

which hit the country, UK went in and provided a lot of medical support, hospitals and so on,

and also started to retrain the army to get it back to a professional status. But Sierra Leone mirrors,

if you like, Liberia. Sierra Leone was created as a state to which the United Kingdom could repatriate

former slaves from the American colonies and from the United Kingdom to be able to go back to Africa.

In fact, created this country called Sierra Leone, which then was dominated by the former slaves

who were not originally necessarily from that area and who spoke a broken English called Krio, KRIO.

And in Liberia, the United States created a separate country there to repatriate former slaves from the United States.

And again, they speak a, that's dominated by the former slaves and they speak a language which is a form of Krio or Krio as well.

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