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From a basket carried on her head this beautiful young woman sells charcoal to light the fires and cooking pots of Kroo Bay in Freetown, Sierra Leone, a slum to several thousand people. Copyright Lee Karen Stow |
The International Slavery Museum in Liverpool currently has an exhibit by photojournalist Lee Karen Stow. ’42’ Women of Sierra Leone – an exhibition of 42 portraits of the women of Sierra Leone, will be shown from 4 March 2011 to 15 April 2012. For more info
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