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 ...

My knowledge of Sierra Leone growing up, thanks to books and music, was a once beautiful land that became afflicted by the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a convoluted diamond mining industry – dare ...