Stories from travels in

Sierra Leone

Kabala, Sierra Leone

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,

Freetown, Sierra Leone

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

View of a beach from the water - some people standing in the water, more sitting under umbrellas on the beach

River #2, Sierra Leone

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,

Banana Islands, Sierra Leone: Ricketts

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

Banana Island, Sierra Leone: Dublin

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

Lakka, Sierra Leone

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

Side profile of an African woman wearing a cerise pink hat as she leans against an open window

Freetown, Sierra Leone: Getting there

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