POLITICAL CULTURE IN SIERRA LEONE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL ATTITUDES OF UNIVERSITT AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN FREETOWN

The current study of the Political culture of Sierra Leone, has as it's RAISON D'ETRE to provide empirical data which would test against experiential findings the validity of the proposition that, given the vulnerability of students to the same objects of the political system, major differences exist between University and Secondary School students in Freetown with regard to their cognitive and affective orientations toward political objects. Utilising the Ci vie (Participant) culture approach as our theoretical perspective, data was gathered from ten ( 10) Secondary Schools and Fourah Bay University College, Freetown, reflecting: the cognizability of political Leaders among University and Secondary level students, students frequency of reading newspapers and magazines, students frequency .o f listening to radio, the degree of Students political alienation"fr·om the bureaucracy and the police, Students frequency of political discussion and finally freedom of political discussion among University and Secondary School students in Freetown.