Sierra Leone: Hafsatu Kamara

Published: March 22, 2014, 3 a.m.

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Hafsatu Kamara is an up-and-coming sprinter who represented Sierra Leone at the 2013 African Senior Championships, and aims to do well at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Raised in Sierra Leone and the United States, she is well aware of the extremes life can throw at you, having been forced to leave Sierra Leone because of the outbreak of Civil War in the early nineties. Her choice of music is by Emmerson from his \\u201cYesterday Betteh Pass Tiday?\\u201d album, a recording which provoked a tense political debate in Sierra Leone. This reggae song "Na for Balance\\u201d advises Sierra Leoneans to avoid physical confrontation.

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