Jimfish
“‘Welcome to Liberia, where peace prevails and we indigenous people run our own affairs!’ she told Jimfish and Lunamiel. ‘How far we have come, and how long ago it seems, when we were very like your own appalling country, where a tiny group of white bigots whips black people into line, when they don’t go about shooting them dead.’ She’d barely finished speaking when the characteristic tick-tick of heavy automatic fire around the port sent them scurrying for safety behind a line of burnt-out army... trucks. They seemed to have arrived in a war zone. Fighters were everywhere: firing, falling, cheering and dying.
Crouching near them was a military man covered in medals. He was watching the battle with great calm, as if he had seen a lot of this fighting before and was undismayed. Catching sight of him, their friend was overjoyed.
‘The good Lord has saved us! Here is my uncle, one of my very own Krahn people from my home village. He’s a soldier and he will know what this violence means.’ When she introduced her friends, Jimfish was embarrassed to hear himself and Lunamiel identified as South Africans, knowing how detested his compatriots were throughout the continent.MoreLess
Crouching near them was a military man covered in medals. He was watching the battle with great calm, as if he had seen a lot of this fighting before and was undismayed. Catching sight of him, their friend was overjoyed.
‘The good Lord has saved us! Here is my uncle, one of my very own Krahn people from my home village. He’s a soldier and he will know what this violence means.’ When she introduced her friends, Jimfish was embarrassed to hear himself and Lunamiel identified as South Africans, knowing how detested his compatriots were throughout the continent.MoreLess
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