Category: Features

65 Years On, Freedom Still Feels Unfinished

Freetown, 27th April 2026- Adama Koroma, 78, has watched 65 Independence Days come and go from the same doorway in the East End of Freetown. She was a schoolgirl in 1961 when the Union Jack came down at Brookfields Playground and Sir Milton Margai a quiet doctor who became a founding father accepted the instruments of sovereignty from the Duke of Kent. She remembers her mother weeping. Not from grief. From joy.

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