ʻO ka haʻuki ʻana i kahi pālule iho i lalo a me kekahi mea ʻoluʻolu iki ma mua o ke aka o ka hola ʻelima, aia kahi luhi e hoʻomaha ana iā Faysal Debeis. A pono ʻo ia - no Sierra Leone ʻo ia.
ʻO Debeis a me kona mau kamaʻāina he ʻehiku mau makahiki i hemo ʻia mai ke kaua kīwila he umi makahiki ka lōʻihi i koi ʻia he 50,000 mau ola, ua hōʻeha mau ʻia i ka hapalua miliona mau kānaka a lilo i 2 miliona mau mea hou aku i nā mea mahuka. Ua haʻalele ka hakakā i ka honua me nā kiʻi o nā kupapaʻu i hōʻoki ʻia a hoʻoulu ʻia i ke kiʻi ʻoniʻoni ʻo 2006 "Blood Diamond," me Leonardo DiCaprio.
Akā me ka paʻa o ka ʻāina no ka manawa mua i loko o mau makahiki, ʻo Debeis kekahi o nā poʻe Sierra Leoneans e ʻoliʻoli nei i ka ulu ʻana o kahi ʻoihana makemake ʻole ʻia: mākaʻikaʻi.
ʻO Sierra Leone, kahi lāhui he 6 miliona o ʻApelika Komohana i hui pū ʻia me Somalia ma luna o ka papa inoa o Forbes o nā ʻāina weliweli loa o ka honua e like me ka makahiki 2002. I kēia lā ua ʻoi aku ka palekana o ka lāhui, akā mahalo i ka piʻi kiʻekiʻe o ka piʻi ʻana o 8 pākēneka, a ʻO ka huahana home microscopic nui o $ 2 biliona, kahi ola ola abysmal o 41 a me ka nui o nā hana hewa kanaka, ua kū ʻo Sierra Leone i ka helu o ka United Nations 'Human Development index.
"Aloha nō wau i kēia ʻāina," wahi a Debeis, ka mea nona he 40 mau mea o ka hale ʻaina kahakai ʻo Chez Nous ma Freetown, ke kapitala nui o ka ʻāina.
ʻO Sierra Leone kahi ʻāpana o nā mea hoʻoikaika haole pū kekahi. I ka makahiki 2006, ua hoʻolaha ʻo Lonely Planet, "ʻAʻole e liʻuliʻu ma mua o ka noho ʻana o Sierra Leone ma kahi kahakai kahakai a me nā lā hoʻomaha nui o ʻEulopa."
ʻEkolu mau makahiki ma hope, me he mea lā ua pololei ke alakaʻi huakaʻi.
"I kēia mau lā, ua hoʻomaka nā pūʻulu liʻiliʻi e hele mai," i ʻōlelo ʻo Fatmata Abe-Osagie o ko Sierra Leone National Tourist Board. "Manaʻo mākou e kiʻi hou iā Sierra Leone ma ke ʻano he wahi huakaʻi."
Hoʻomaka akā hoʻomaka paʻa
Ua huki ʻia e nā kahakai one keʻokeʻo ākea, nā ululāʻau momona a, malia paha, he ʻano huakaʻi holomua loa ia, 3,842 mau haole i hoʻomaha i Sierra Leone i ka makahiki i hala, a piʻi ka 27 pakeneka. ʻO ia kahi malihini kipa he 10.5 mau i kēlā me kēia lā (loaʻa ka 550 i ka mokupuni Caribbean o St. Barth), akā he hoʻomaka ia. ʻO ka helu o ka makahiki i hala aku nei ma mua o ʻekolu mau manawa o ka nui o nā mākaʻikaʻi i hele mai i ka ʻāina i kahi mau makahiki i hala.
"He hiki nō iā Sierra Leone ke lilo i wahi huakaʻi," wahi a Erica Bonanno, 24, he kamaʻāina New Jersey e hana ana ma Freetown ma kahi hui kōkua ʻole i kapa ʻia ʻo Search for Common Ground. "ʻOiaʻiʻo nō aia nā akahele e pono ai ʻoe e mālama, e like me ka hele ʻole ʻana i waho i ka pō a me ka waiho ʻana i nā mea waiwai ʻole e wehe ʻia, akā ʻaʻole wau i ʻike e like me ka makaʻu."
ʻO ka maluhia pili o nā makahiki i hala iho nei kekahi mea o ka aberration i ka moʻolelo o Sierra Leone.
I ka makahiki 1787 lawe mai nā Pelekania he 400 mau kauā i hoʻokuʻu ʻia i ka "Panalāʻau o ke Kuokoa" me ka manaʻo e hoʻokumu i kahi kolone Utopian. ʻO ka hapa nui o nā mea noho mua i hoʻopau koke ʻia e ka maʻi a me nā kamaʻāina ʻenemi. Ua hakakā mau ke koena me nā ʻohana Pelekane a me nā ʻōiwi a hiki i ka wā i hāʻawi aku ai ʻo UK i ke kūʻokoʻa o Sierra Leone ma 1961.
I kēlā manawa, ua hoʻomaka nā mea minia e ʻike i nā ʻanoʻano o ka huhū i kanu ʻia i ka lepo mehana o ka ʻāina: diamona. Mai ko lākou loaʻa ʻana i nā makahiki 1930 a hiki i nā makahiki '70, hiki i kekahi ke kiʻi i nā pōhaku mai ka lepo momona ma hope o ka ua paʻakikī.
I ka ulu ʻana o ka paʻakikī o nā daimana e kiʻi, eia naʻe, ua like pū ʻo Sierra Leone me ka hoʻokahe koko. I ka hoʻomaka ʻana o nā makahiki 1990, ua hoʻomaʻamaʻa a hoʻopaʻa kālā ka pūʻali koa Liberian ʻo Charles Taylor i nā militia e lawe i nā māla daimana me ka ikaika, a ua hoʻopau ʻia i loko o kahi kaua kīwila kolohe me ka lā awelika e pili ana i nā mea āpau mai nā keiki koa kipi i ka hana ʻino a hōʻoki ʻia i nā lālā.
Ua kipaku ʻia nā kipi a haʻalele ʻia e nā pūʻali koa UN. Ma ka 2002, ua hopu ʻia ka hapa nui o nā mea kani, a ke kali nei ʻo Taylor i kēia manawa no ka hoʻokolokolo no nā hewa kaua ma Hague.
ʻO ke koho balota o Pelekikena Ernest Bai Koroma i ka mahina ʻo Kepakemapa 2007 i ka manawa mua ma ka moʻolelo o Sierra Leone i ka lanakila ʻana o ka ʻaoʻao kūʻē ʻaʻole i ala ka hakakā kaua. Ua hoʻokumu ʻo Koroma i nā pūʻali hana e hakakā me nā mea āpau mai ka palaho aupuni a i ka urination lehulehu.
Kuhi ʻia nā daimana kū kānāwai, i emi iho i $ 1.2 miliona i ka makahiki 1999 i ka wā o ka poʻe kipi e hoʻomalu ana i ka hapa nui o ka ʻāina, a hiki i $ 200 miliona. Ua hoʻoneʻe ʻia ʻo Sierra Leone mai ka papa inoa aʻoaʻo aʻoaʻo a ka mokuʻāina ʻo US State.
Hoʻomaha nui loa
Kūpono nā huakaʻi i Freetown (e hoʻomaka ana ma $ 1,600 i kēlā me kēia huakaʻi mai New York), akā he uku kūpono ia no ka huakaʻi huakaʻi nui.
I hoʻokahi manawa ma o nā loina - ʻaʻole pono e uku kīpē i nā ʻākena ʻaʻole hoʻi e hopohopo inā kālele lākou i kahi hōʻailona kālā nui ma luna o kāu ʻeke, me he mea ʻole lā-ʻo ka hapa ʻino loa o ka huakaʻi ʻo ia ka huakaʻi mai Lungi i ka ʻāina nui. Pono nā malihini kipa e koho ma waena o kahi waʻa ($ 5 i kēlā me kēia ala, hiki lohi i ka wā ma mua - a i ʻole ʻole), kahi helikopter o ke au Soviet kahi manawa ($ 70, ʻoiai ke ʻano o kona ʻano helehelena a me ka moʻolelo o nā ulia pōpilikia) a me kahi hovercraft ($ 60, e hōʻea pinepine ana manawa). Lawe i ka hovercraft. Kūpono ʻole nā ulia pōpilikia i kekahi manawa, akā ʻaʻole make.
Inā hōʻea ʻoe i ka pō, mai hopohopo ʻoe i nā ahi e kū ana i ka ʻāina i ka wā o ka holo pahi holo kaʻa mai ke kahua mokulele a i ke kikowaena hovercraft. ʻO kēia nā lama e hoʻomālamalama i nā alanui pā ʻole; ʻAʻohe o ka uila ma ka hapa nui o ka ʻāina. Pēlā nō nā kukui uila, nā mīkini kālā, nā paipu kūloko a me nā mea like ʻē aʻe i lawe ʻia no ke Komohana.
Hiki ke loaʻa nā lua holoi, ka wai maʻemaʻe a me nā hōʻoluʻolu honua ʻē aʻe ma kahi o $ 100 no kēlā me kēia pō ma kekahi mau hōkele ma ka ʻaoʻao kai ʻo Freetown ʻo Aberdeen. E noʻonoʻo i ka Hōkele ʻo Bintumani, ka ʻāina nui loa, a i ʻole ʻo Cape Sierra, kekahi o kāna kiʻi kiʻi nui loa. Kau ʻia ma luna o kahi pali pōhaku ma ka lihi o ka ʻAkelanika, hāʻawi ʻo Cape Sierra i nā keʻena maʻemaʻe, kahi ʻauʻau a me kahi hale ʻaina ʻaina me nā ʻike nani o ka moana.
ʻO Lumley Beach he ʻanuʻu mai nā hōkele ʻelua. Hoʻopili ʻia e ke kai polū-ʻōmaʻomaʻo ma kekahi ʻaoʻao a me nā puʻu kikoʻu liʻiliʻi ma kekahi ʻaoʻao, he wahi ʻoluʻolu ia e hoʻomaha ai, inā ʻaʻole ʻoe e noʻonoʻo i ka mea kūʻai lima a me ka mea kūʻai aku DVD bootleg. E kiʻi iā Heineken no $ 1 ma kekahi o nā kahakai kahakai kaupaku hale a holoholo paha i kahi hapalua mile ma ke kai no kahi pāʻina kai ma The Bunker, kahi ʻaina ahiahi i Chez Nous a i ʻole kahi steak cheese ma Roy's. ʻO kahi ʻaina awakea ʻono no ʻelua, piha me nā cocktails, e hoʻihoʻi iā ʻoe ma kahi o $ 12.
Ma ʻō aku o ke kahakai
No ka poʻe makemake e mākaʻikaʻi ma ʻō aku o ke kahakai, nui nā mea e hana ai i ke kaona ʻo Freetown. E holo ʻoe i kahi kaʻa kaʻa he $ 2 i ke kikowaena o ke kūlanakauhale i loko o 20 mau minuke i paʻa i ke kaʻa. aloha i kahi motika a, no $ 1, e wikiwiki ʻoe i ka holo - a me kahi hana e ulana nei me ka ulana ʻana ma waena o nā jalopies e pūnohu ana i nā smog.
Inā makemake ʻoe e ʻike i ke koena o ka ʻāina, hoʻolimalima i kahi mea hoʻokele ($ 150 i kēlā me kēia lā, hoʻokomo ʻia ka wahie) e lawe iā ʻoe i nā panalāʻau ʻākau. Ke luhi mau ʻia nei nā kuaʻāina me nā kino make i puhi ʻia i ke ahi a me nā hale i pohā ʻia i ka pōkā; ke hele ʻoe ma waena o nā kauhale liʻiliʻi, kū nā keiki mai nā hale e nānā a kuhi. Hoʻopili i nā meaʻai he nui e hāʻawi - a na ʻoe e ʻai. ʻAʻole nui nā wahi e kū ai no nā wahi meaʻai māmā, inā ʻaʻole ʻoe e makemake i ka ʻāina kai Sierra Leonean e like me "crain-crain," kahi hui o nā iʻa, pipi, nā mea ʻala, raiki a me nā lau cassava.
ʻO ke kaona mining-diamona o Koidu ma kahi o 200 mile mai Freetown, kahi huakaʻi he ʻehiku hola ma nā alanui pākea ʻole. Ma laila, hiki iā ʻoe ke nānā pono i nā waiwai o nā mea kūʻai daimana e noho ana ma hope o nā puka aniani o nā hale kūʻai e kū pono ana i ke alanui nui o ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Wild West. ʻO nā puka a me nā paia o nā hale e hiolo ana ke halihali mau nei i nā pōkā o ke kaua.
Kūʻai i kahi daimana inā pono ʻoe, akā e ʻike pono e haʻi ia i kou ala i waho a uku i ka uku hoʻolilo he 5 pākēneka pono. Ke hoʻomaikaʻi nei nā kūlana ma Sierra Leone, ʻae. Akā ʻo kāna mau hale paʻahao e hoʻohālikelike i nā hale paʻahao ʻAmelika.
