DOG WE NO GET TEL NO EBUL SALUT IN MASTA. A dog without a tail can't greet its master.
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For those of you contemplating a beach holiday in Sierra Leone
Let me preface this by saying two things.
First, I love Freetown. I
really, really love it. A few years back, I schemed madly to find a way to
convince The Globe and Mail to put its new Africa bureau here. In the end, I
gave up, for reasons that will become clear below. 
Paradise regained
Six years ago, a holiday in Sierra Leone would have been unthinkable.
But with the civil war behind it and new flights and hotels on the
horizon, the West African country is starting to attract adventurous
travellers. Clemency Burton-Hill takes an island-hopping tour and falls
under the country's spell
Bunce Island
More than 70 years later, Greene's words remain true in many ways. On
reaching Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, it is still invariably the squalor
that the first-time visitor notices - the poverty, the scarcity of paved roads,
the absence of infrastructure - all the unfortunate things that earn the country
its place at the bottom of the UN's Human Development Index.
ATTITUDE TOWARDS BEACHES
In The Gambia for example, the United Nations Development Index and other
international stakeholders have rated that country so high because of its
infrastructural development in the area of tourism that has immensely benefited
the West African country.
Records indicate that there are more primary
schools in little Gambia than in Sierra Leone.
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