How we lived
Markets, rice farms, palm oil, fishing and what was cooked at home.
← Everyday lifeInland valley rice cultivation around Bo, Sierra Leone - panoramio 2014
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Inland valley rice cultivation around Bo, Sierra Leone - panoramio (1) 2014
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Inland valley rice cultivation around Bo, Sierra Leone - panoramio (2) 2014
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Inland valley rice cultivation around Bo, Sierra Leone - panoramio (3) 2014
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Lamb and Rice 2014
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Lunch at Tessa's 2014
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Market stall 2014
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Meat n Chips 2014
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Milk in a bag 2014
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New rice milling and storage facility at SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio 2014
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New rice milling and storage facility at SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (1) 2014
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Oils 2014
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Overripe 2014
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Rice Akara, Plantains and Beans 2014
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Rice and Potato Leaves 2014
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Rice fields in the mangroves around Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio 2014
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Rice fields in the mangroves around Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (1) 2014
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Ripe Plantain Chips 2014
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Two women fishing, Panguma Photographed 1935
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This picture shows nudity. Many old pictures like this were taken by European visitors, colonial officials and missionaries, and we often cannot know whether the people in them agreed.
Woman extracting oil from palm kernels, Panguma Photographed 1935
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A man pressing oil from palm kernels, Panguma Photographed 1935
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About fifteen people clearing a rice farm, Panguma Photographed 1935
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Two heaps of rice just cut from the farm, Panguma Photographed 1935
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Six people clearing a rice farm, Panguma Photographed 1935
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Clearing a rice farm, Panguma Photographed 1935
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Farm hut on the rice farm, for cooking and shelter from sun and rain, Panguma, 1934 Photographed late 1934
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio 2014
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (1) 2014
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (2) 2014
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (3) 2014
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (4) 2014
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (5) 2014
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (6) 2014
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SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (7) 2014
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Staff housing at SLSLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio 2014
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Staff housing at SLSLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (1) 2014
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War affected buildings at SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio 2014
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War affected buildings at SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (1) 2014
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War affected buildings at SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (2) 2014
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War affected buildings at SLARI's rice research station in Rokupr, Sierra Leone - panoramio (3) 2014
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Wounded Watermelon 2014
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Boiling a palm fruit 2015
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Palm Fruit 2015
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Palm oil processing 2015
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A woman spreads out cassava flour for drying 2016
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Hodroj Houssein-Tokey Beach (IMG 2218) 2016
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This is a unique picture of busy market in Freetown Sierra Leone 2022/03/12
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A tourist shopping at the Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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A trader and his assistant at the Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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An aisle at the Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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At the market to prepare The Bitter Leaf sauce 2025
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Greetings from Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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Handmade Shuku blye sold at Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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One of the colorful aisles in Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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Pupils cooking Bitter Leaf sauce 2025
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Raffia hand made bags at the Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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Shopping at the market to prepare the Bitter Leaf sauce 2025
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Sierra Leone Big Market 2025
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The Bitter Leaf sauce Chefs cooking 2025
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KoiduMarket By 2007, probably 2000s
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