Sierra Leone

Salone scrapbook: Images 1987–1990

Pre-war images of Sierra Leone taken between 1987 and 1990. See what the country looked like when I lived there. Categories include snapshots, panoramas, currency, and product labels.

Snapshots

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Bangura family	Bangura family	Bangura family	Bangura family
Mount Bintumani	Fula bread sellers	Chet with friend	Chet with snack
Cloudburst	Eddie Kargbo's house	Fatu Dumbuya	100% inflation
Jay's Entertainment Spot: Man about town	Kabangalo: My home	Kabba River	On the road to Kadabi
Kamakwie Wesleyan Hospital	Kamakwie Wesleyan Hospital	KWSS staff outing	KWSS physics students
Kamakwie Wesleyan Secondary School	Kamakwie Wesleyan Secondary School	Kamakwie Wesleyan Secondary School	Near Mongo Bendugu: Abraham and Ishmail
Near Mongo Bendugu: Lion	Kabba Ferry near OKNP	Pampa on Great Scarces	Poyo (palm wine)
Rainbow	Rainbow	Rice planting	Rice planting
Rice harvest	Rice threshing	Rice fanning	Pa Pendoi
Rokulan Mosque	Sama Kamara: Herbalist	Christmas revelers	Christmas devil

Panoramas

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Dry season

Rainy season

Another stunning sunset from Kabangalo. Crepuscular rays formed by distant hills

Space Imaging Radar swath, Eastern Sierra Leone from Guinea to Liberia (Source: NASA/JPL)

Currency

Some of the coins and bills that were in circulation from 1997 to 1990. Several other bills were in circulation at that time, but none of the ones I have were in good enough condition to scan. An inflation rate around 100% per year rendered all the coins in this set worthless by 1990. I never bought anything that cost less than one leone while I was there. By 1996, the 10 and 50 leone bills were replaced with coins.

½ Cent (1964): Milton Margai	1 Cent (1964): Milton Margai	5 Cent (1964): Milton Margai	20 Cent (1984): Siaka Stevens
1 Leone (1987): J.S. Momoh	50 Cent (1984): Siaka Stevens, Bank of Sierra Leone	2 Leone (1984): Siaka Stevens, Bank of Sierra Leone	10 Leone (1984): Siaka Stevens, rutile mining
20 Leone (1984): Siaka Stevens, diamond mining	10 Leone (1988): J.S. Momoh, cattle and rice	20 Leone (1988): J.S. Momoh, diamond mining	50 Leone (1988): J.S. Momoh, reverse unknown

Labels

Some interesting consumer products.

Star Lager Beer

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

Jumbo Maggi Cube

Palmtree Safety Matches