Blogs in May 2025

The Search for Othella Savage 19th May 2025

When one of their own is found unconscious in the boot of her car, Scotland’s Sierra Leonean community is cast into a state of shock. And the young woman’s death a few days later sparks a murder investigation. Though...

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The Memory of Love 20th June 2020

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital’s...

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The Palm Oil Stain 1st January 1970

The Palm Oil Stain is a brutal tale of a woman’s journey of love and survival. Set against the backdrop of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone, Shalimar escapes an attack on her village assisted by a South African...

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