Sitting in the shade of a palm tree on Tokeh Beach, one of Sierra Leone's many postcard-worthy, white-sand waterfronts, Peter Momoh Bassie told me his story."I am not ashamed to say I was part of ...

Tokeh Beach in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Michael Duff—Getty Images. By Terry Ward. ... At the nearby Tasso Ecotourism Project, an island in the Sierra Leone River Estuary, ...

Freetown, Sierra Leone.It’s always like going back home — it’s where I was born and I have family there. It’s amazing and you have everything: the beach, mountains, so much green and the ...

“First of all, it’s a beautiful little island off the coast of Sierra Leone. It’s about the same size as Chicago, there’s about 40,000 inhabitants on it in different regions across the ...

Where is your favourite destination and why? Freetown, Sierra Leone. It’s always like going back home — it’s where I was born and I have family there. It’s amazing and you have everything: the beach, ...

Nearby on Bunce Island, travelers can visit the remains of the largest slave fort in Sierra Leone turned into a national monument in 1948. Resorts on Tokeh Beach. David DiGregorio ...

Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people from ...

Sitting in the shade of a palm tree on Tokeh Beach, one of Sierra Leone's many postcard-worthy, white-sand waterfronts, Peter Momoh Bassie told me his story."I am not ashamed to say I was part of ...