The most common name in Sierra Leone and The “Wrong of Way”

(Quick note: My first post was originally going to be about my trip to Sierra Leone from Seattle, but I actually wrote a story about that today and that should be in the paper tomorrow. I’m hoping that it will be available online so I can attach a link, but if it’s not, then I’ll just paste the story directly into a post later this week.)

On my first day of work, I went with a colleague to the parliament building to cover a press conference. On our way there, he was telling me that, in Sierra Leone, when you don’t know someone’s name, you just call them, “You” (which I suppose isn’t that much different from what people do in the states). Regardless, my colleague, Ishmael, joked around saying, “You have the most common name in Sierra Leone.”

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