Before Before - 9780472057290

Before BeforeA Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone\nAuthor(s): Betsy Small\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472057290, 978-0472057290\nSynopsis\nSierra Leone is often sensationalized as a place of extreme violence and sufferingof blood diamonds, child soldiers, war amputations, and Ebola and now the highly addictive drug Kush. Before Before captures daily life in a different country, one Betsy Small first encountered as a Peace Corps worker between [tel], and then rediscovered when she returned decades later with her daughter. Living in Tokpombu, a remote community of forty rice-farming families, the author faced struggles that changed her forever and witnessed the growing tensions in this rainforest villagebetween the young and old, between the traditions of oral history and honoring the ancestors valued by the elders and the siren call of the illicit diamond mines faced by.