By patricia.ngevao@awokonewspaperr.sl (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025)
Standing close to a modest display of hair products and perfumes in his small shop at Cline Town, Mohamed Sesay arranges bottles neatly as the morning sun filters through the open doorway. The air is thick with the scent of colognes, mingling with the distant rumble of passing trucks and chatter from nearby stalls.
“I still remember it like yesterday,” he says, pausing to straighten a box of pomade. “The shouting… the gunshots. I can still hear them sometimes, even in my sleep.”
Mohamed was just 14 years old when rebels stormed his village near Kambia in 1998. His parents were killed, and he was taken and forced to live with the rebels. “What kind of justice could fix that?” he asks. “Only God can forgive them. I don’t think I can.”
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