Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone
Himself
December 20, 2025
From Freetown, it is a four-and-a-half-hour drive to the village of Potoru. Then most of an hour more on a tortuous, rutted dirt road to
From Freetown, it is a four-and-a-half-hour drive to the village of Potoru. Then most of an hour more on a tortuous, rutted dirt road to
I’m big on bearing witness to history. The slave market in Zanzibar left a lasting impression and I was expecting something similar at Bunce Island.
Tasso Island is one of the islands that dot the Sierra Leone River Estuary. Home to a relatively new ecotourism project, its beach-side chalets and
The distance by road from Freetown to Kabala is about 300 km. The drive took more than 5 hours. Some of the road is good,
About 60% of Sierra Leone’s 10 million or so people are under the age of 25. That’s young. Very young. Only about 2.5% are over
About 30 minutes south of Freetown there’s a small coastal village called River #2. It’s here that the river, River #2, flows into the Atlantic,
Ricketts, one of the three islands that make up the Banana Islands, is everything Dublin isn’t. While Dublin depends largely on tourism, Ricketts depends on
York. Sussex. Aberdeen. Waterloo. Hastings. Kent. Being in Sierra Leone reminds me a little of being in Nova Scotia in that the familiar place names
Lumley Beach, billed as Freetown’s party playground, is the backdrop to Beach Road, which is flanked by a string of bars, restaurants, and hotels. The
A handful of flights arrive and depart from Freetown International Airport, an airport that isn’t actually in Freetown; it’s in the town of Lungi. Both
