MJoTA Publisher
was in the audience at a townhall meeting for the African diaspora in
June 2009 when she heard Mrs Zainab Wai-Lansana talk about her
fund-raising efforts in Sierra Leone, click here
to read the article she wrote.
She wanted to raise funds to feed
pregnant women so they would not die in childbirth. The appalling
statistic that more women in Sierra Leone die in childbirth than in any
other country grabbed MJoTA Publisher, who followed Ms Zain to Freetown
in August 2010 to find out why. Cecil Samba, who is Sierra Leonean and a social worker, moves back to
Freetown after some decades in New York, and works hard to stop women
dying in childbirth, click here.
Stories from the time in Sierra Leone include an interview by the Sierra Leonean newspaper Unity, click here; overview of the trip to Nigeria and Sierra Leone, click here.
The story of a dog named Bibi, click here.
The story of the red house where a princess died in childbirth, click here.
After MJoTA publisher visited the red house with Zainab's Uncle Morry, the son of the dead
princess, she chatted with his wife, a radio producer and journalist,
Rosemarie. Rosemarie interviewed MJoTA Publisher for a radio show, and
then they lay back on a bed, drinking tea and chatting, when Rosemary
told MJoTA Publisher she had to walk across Sierra Leone.
The walk will
start from Lungi airport in the last week in October, 2011.