When a man drives by the strip at Lumley Beach in downtown Freetown at night, he'll probably hear a sharp hiss. That's not an unusual sound in Sierra Leone ... one in the house with any income.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mariam Abangua, a vegetable seller at the busy open-air Lumley market in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital ...