The Paramount Hotel, Freetown: Neocolonial Investment and the Business of Tropical Modernism in Sierra Leone

This article examines the planning of the Paramount Hotel in Sierra Leone, completed to the designs of James Cubitt & Partners in 1961, during Sierra Leone’s transition from colonial rule to independence. This paper demonstrates that the hotel was conceived of as a neocolonial instrument planned...

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Main Author: Ewan Harrison
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art 2024-12-01
Series:ABE Journal
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/abe/16767
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