Sierra Leone

  • Children at play in Makeni

  • (NOT) travelling light . . . bush taxis plying the road between Guinea and Sierra Leone

  • The late Amos Kamara, chief of London Village in Kono District and Master Farmer too.

  • Giewumba Village, Kenema District, separating coffee beans from husks

  • Jebbeh Swaray, Giewumba Village, basket-maker extraordinaire

  • In Sandeyah, Philip and Aminata Amadu enjoy being back home after many years in exile after the war in Freetown

  • Cocoa pods in Sandeyah, Kailahun District, used for making black soap

  • Sandeyah, Kailahun District, village tailor displays his workmanship

  • Poda Poda

  • Almamy Mansaray, a master palm wine (poyo) tapper in Tuyama, Kailahun District Limbas are the experts

  • Jam Delicious Dishes . . . come together and eat!

  • Rainy season road from Pendembu to Kailahun can be impassable

  • Bassaleh, Pujehun District, a village that struggled to prevent Socfin Agricultural Company from taking their rich farmland for oil palm plantations

  • The magnificent Number Two Beach near Freetown

  • Sierra Leonean children donned Obama t-shirts without knowing who he was

  • Agro-biodiversity in a small roadside market, where now Addax Bioenergy is estabishing massive sugarcane plantations that will erode the farm and food diversity.

  • Greetings from children in Jagbwema, near Koidu in Kono District

  • The rains play havoc with the road from Kailahun to Pendembu, making it very difficult for farmers to get produce to market

  • The UN helicopter takes off from Kailahun