This photo just in from AfricaWrites shows Managing Editor Patrick (with camera) and Robert Millamono – AfricaWrites Field Coordinator and Assist. Editor - on a trip across the Makona river into Sierra Leone in October of 2005. Patrick describes their experiences:
“We were to meet with several community leaders and Chiefs. But unfortunately we were detained by the secret police and were delayed a bit. However, while in custody we made some great friends and the government agreed to offer their full assistance in working with us within the region. That particular crossing was the site where many rebels died a few years ago while attempting to flee back across the Guinean border. They perished in the cold and (very) rapid waters of the Makona. The primary means of crossing that river is by using the Kissi traditional canoes. While crossing, they constantly fill with water so children are always helping to empty the water with small tin cans.”
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