Posts Tagged ‘sierra leone’
“It is finished in my heart,” or, how to forgive the man who cut off your arm
I don’t have any idea. But here’s what Temba Kekura told me (this is the last part of my Sierra Leone series; if you read yesterday’s post, you haven’t seen this yet): Before the war, when his village and his family and his body were whole, Temba Kekura was a farmer. He had few things, [...]
Really, I went to Sierra Leone; or, A look at reconciliation, village by village
Way back in March, the Christian Science Monitor sent me to Sierra Leone to report a series on ‘grassroots reconciliation,’ for lack of a better term, after the war there. It’s finally seen the light of day, in a three-parter which began yesterday. Here’s the setup: John Caulker might know the rough, red-rock roads of [...]
Apologies–mine, and otherwise
Oh, so many apologies. * First, to my few but devoted commenters–commentors? how is it spelled? this new internet age!–whose wonderful thoughts I’ve let languish in the “awaiting approval” pipeline. Sorry about that; it’s been a bit crazy here, and I didn’t want to click in and out until I could really engage. So, here [...]
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