Sierra Leone Diasporas
Maurice April 5th. 2024 There is a book I once read that spoke about human frailties told through an interesting tale of mental lethargy. We seek refuge from the harshness of the known through fantasies about the unknown frontier. Something quite similar yet the opposite happens for the thousands of Sierra Leoneans who live overseas. They seek refuge from the harshness and uncertain future of the known (our native land) through certainty and fantasies about the unknown frontier (western world). Remember, overseas Sierra Leoneans are the ones who left their homeland, family members, friends, in search of success through a much better utilisation of their talents and hard work. It was the other side’s (western world) fantasies of wealth and success which compelled them to make the journey. Many of the Sierra Leone immigrants in foreign lands found the success they had heard and read about western countries. Once successful, these overseas Sierra Leoneans never abandoned the drea