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![]() Youths high on the exhilaration of the possibility of change hang out of car windows, or perch on trucks carrying speakers that pump with music and the occasional political message. On their allocated days, all shades of green (the incumbent Sierra Leone People’s Party), red (the main opposition All People’s Congress) and orange (the SLPP breakaway, People’s Movement for Democratic Change) take the streets of Freetown by storm, causing already day-long traffic jams to congest further. The solemnity that attends political debate in many other countries is replaced by a carnival of music, colour and dancing. There is nothing dour or staid about politics in the Sierra Leonean elections. The political apathy that sweeps the West is one of the few things that politicians in this West African nation need not worry about. It’s about politics – about which Presidential contender can most successfully wipe out corruption, create jobs and oversee the development of Sierra Leone. It’s not an argument about the taxi fare or personal gripes (of which I am accumulating many – the latest involving an uninvited rat swimming in my toilet). ![]() Wedged between sweaty, gesticulating passengers in an overcrowded taxi, I am forced to listen to the boisterous argument filling the suspension-less vehicle. Click on the photos below to open them up full size ![]()
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