By Alvin Lansana Kargbo (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025)
Mariama Kamara, a bright and determined 17-year-old, recently sat the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Government Rokel Secondary School in the central part of Freetown. She began her academic journey at Wallace Johnson Primary School, where she took the National Primary School Examination (NPSE) and excelled, earning a place at one of the capital’s oldest government secondary schools.
But despite completing nine years of basic education in post-war Sierra Leone, Mariama knows almost nothing about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) or the recommendations it makes to heal the country after the devastating civil war that lasted from 1991 to 2002.
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