Posted by Daniel Lavin, RPCV, on 9 June 2009 at 17h21
I’ve been traveling and working in Sierra Leone since 1988. My original experiences in places like Freetown, Makeni and Bo were to see ex-pats and NGO workers and a few wealthy Sierra Leoneans enjoying restaurants and services, with the bulk of the citizens only observing. In the last few years, something amazing has happend. I went into a restaurant in Freetown, walking in to the room to see every table taken by local people. This wasn’t a special occassion. They were simply having lunch and were heading back to work. They were dressed professionally, and very comfortable in this new world. With my eyes open, I started noticing the changes around me. Expectations and reality have changed in Sierra Leone.
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