Photos: Sierra Leone Countryside

When you leave Freetown and travel to the countryside you can see the real beauty of Sierra Leone. I took these photos between 2006 and 2013 while I was working in Kono District and traveling around the country. They were taken during both the rainy and dry seasons, so some of them look brown and hazy while others are greener.  The people in the pictures are neighbors or people I met or saw along the road.  (If anyone in Sierra Leone sees themself here contact me and I’ll add your name.)  

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Gondama Bridge in the South near Bo

 

Near Magburaka on the main highway through the North

 

Country Road in Kono District

 

Mosque in Peyima town, Kono District

 

Paramount Chiefs Compound, Sandor Chiefdom, Kono District in 2006

 

Palm Wine Corner, Zimmi

 

Drinking palm wine, Koidu, Kono District

 

On a path near Kabala in the North

 

Village on the Koidu to Bunumbu Road, in the East

 

Country Road

 

New Year Devil Dancers on the Koidu to Bunumbu Road

 

Road between Mano Junction and Segbwema

 

Old Store on the Koidu to Bunumbu Road

 

Village in a valley, on the road to Kombayendeh Kono District

 

Village Scene

 

Burning Fields for Planting, Eastern Province

 

Sewa River at Jaiama Sewafe, Kono District in the rainy season

 

Road from Masingbi to Mondema in the East

 

Highway between Koidu and Masingbi, taken in 2010 during Harmattan Winds when dust from the Sahara makes it hazy.

 

District Council Hill, Koidu, Kono District

 

On the Koidu to Bunumbu Road in the East

 

Storm cloues and oil palm trees

 

Village in Kono District during the Rainy Season

 

Rice Field, Kailahun District

 

Rural Church in Kono District

 

School boys in Tonkolili District

 

School in Peyima, Kono District

 

Kids playing football in a village

 

At Bumpeh town, Kono District

 

Sewa River near Jaiama Sewafe, Kono District

 

Kainkordu town, Kono District

 

Neighbors in Koidu Kono

 

Playing draughts

 

Men making mud bricks

 

Men working on a road near Kombayendeh, Kono District

 

Mountains near Kombayendeh, Kono District

 

Kombayendeh, Kono District

 

Travelers on the Nimikor Kono to Tongo Field Road

 

Highway north of Tongo Field

 

Travelers on highway to Kono, dry season

 

Village in Kono District