Unity over adversity. Its a running theme in the story of Tombohuaun, translation Tombos Wound, a remote village tucked into the jungle of Sierra Leones Eastern Province. The communitys founding legend states that a villager named Tombo cut his foot on a catfish in the river, and the then chief ordered the fish to be caught and killed. Back then, as now, the community came together to put things right: they caught the fish, ate it, and went on to name the town after this symbolic... more
