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Sierra Leone born award-winning African writer, Aminatta Forna, has observed that the country, once a conflict zone, was changing. "The International Monetary Fund IMF) projects 36 per cent growth. You see it in Sierra Leone. Roads have been paved and lot of wealth. Some riots have also broken out. People are talking about the resource curse. The more politicized and educated

Aminatta Forna’s essays about people and place and motion Daneet Steffens © Nina Subin Aminatta Forna is the author of four novels and a memoir. “The Window Seat,” Aminatta Forna’s new book of essays, opens with its exhilarating eponymous piece, encompassing her heady childhood experiences of flying internationally as an unaccompanied minor as well as the giddy experience of executing a loop de loop in a light aircraft. Both perceptive and informative, that essay sets...