US embassy in Freetown
By Umaru Fofana
Long live the leone!
By Umaru Fofana
In the Ghanaian capital last week I changed 100 Euros. The teller at the bureau de change close to the hotel I was staying at, knowing me to be a journalist he admitted he had admired for years, said to me: "I am sorry Mr Fofana".
Sierra Leone: rich in resources, rich in poor people
By Umaru Fofana
Fatima Sesay is a middle-aged woman. Very active and very full of life. Highly opinionated and passionate about what she likes and dislikes. She likes the fact that she "cannot be compromised" she tells me smiling. And she detests that she lives "in squalor" because of what "should be a blessing" to her. She could be your mother or our sister and can pass for any woman in Rutile, Kono, Lunsar, Pujehun and of course Tonkolili.
Death by "Energy Drink"
By Umaru Fofana
They are all over the country. Stocked on almost all shelves and stalls in all shops and all bars. Swimming and perhaps drowning in them are mostly men. Hardly, one gets the impression, does anybody or any institution stringently regulate their entry into the country or their sales. Never mind their consumption.
