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    Freetown motor bike (Okada rider) saga

    What means “Okada rider“: In the main square of Makeni, a couple of hours’ drive into the jungle from Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, young men sit around on their motorbikes, chatting, joking and swapping cigarettes. These are the town’s taxi-drivers – okada riders, in the...

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