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"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo.

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it, to tell the tale." Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel García Márquez.

"They never taught wandering in any school I attended. ... they never taught the art of writing a book, either. It's all so mysterious."
"Wandering is an art in itself. Wandering and writing don't mix"
"Writing demands commitment and if one thing your wanderer is allergic to is that very quality of commitment, for once one is committed he runs that very risk of failure ..." Wanderer - Sterling Hayden.

"Photography enables you to grasp a place first time round. ... Photography is a means of exploration, it's a vital part of travel, almost as essential as a car or a plane. " - Wim Wenders.

"The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game..." , Egon Friedell.

"How far you gonna go. Before you lose your way back home" - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World, Achtung Baby, U2.

"If you want to be a hero well just follow me." - Working Class Hero, John Lennon.

"When I think of all the things I have done, I know that it's only just begun." - I love you, Lou Reed.

"One does not escape the Sahara - the Sahara let's you go or not" - Touareg.

"Planet earth is blue and there`s nothing I can do" - This is Ground Control to Major Tom, David Bowie.

"Glory for the crazy people/in this stupid world" - Ahmed Fouad Negm.

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News Stories Sierra Leone.

  • BBC - Foday Sankoh: The cruel rebel. July 2003. Sankoh led a vicious rebel group (RUF) whose fighters used machetes to hack off the hands, feet, lips and ears of Sierra Leone's civilians and raped thousands of girls and women. between 1991 and 2000.
  • Photos of attrocities carried out by RUF. (WARNING. These are gruesome images, look if you want to grasp a little what went on, it is hard to fathom).

News Stories Liberia.

  • WashPost In Postwar Liberia, Paradise Amid the Poverty. Sushi bars/Mamba Point Hotel. May 2008.
  • AllAfrica Liberia: World Bank Gives Country U.S.$10 Million - EU U.S.$25 Million. May 2008.
  • Jeune Afrique "Diamants contre armes" ou comment Taylor contrôlait les rebelles du RUF. March 2008.
  • Guardian Rough diamonds, Global Witness: diamonds are being used to fund the conflict. Feb 2007.
  • BBC Interview with Liberian Prince Johnson in 2006 (the one who killed ex President Samuel Doe in 1990 who killed ex President William R. Tolbert Jr in 1980). Meeting the hard man of Liberia, Nov 2006.
  • National Giographic Liberia President Taylor's Life of Crime. July 2003.

Liberia.

Sierra Leone.

  • Amnesty International SL page.
  • Cry Freetown Documentary by Sorious Samura. A brutal portrayal of what happened in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone in January 1999. The film was fisrt considered too brutal for bradcasting.
  • Blood Diamonds The Film.
  • Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses.
  • UNAMSIL.

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