Lord knows I can write but sometimes words are not enough. Over 100 adults and children showed up to meet me at my book launch in Piscataway, New Jersey yesterday and I am still overwhelmed. And then after we finished I learned that several people (Sierra Leoneans I’ve never met) who couldn’t be there contributed funds to help cover the cost of planning the launch.

My heart is full. I have wept and I’m weeping now.

I can’t tell you how it feels to be so loved and supported but I hope these pictures by Fatima Sesay (Inside Diaspora) who volunteered to cover the launch capture how it was.

I feel gratitude I can’t express try as I may. Through your love and kindness, I feel God’s love. I also feel my grandmother’s blessings.

I’m still weeping.

I continue to be the recipient of Sierra Leonean love and most importantly sisterhood. Having grown up hearing nothing but “Salon man get badat” and “Women are their own enemies” I’m grateful that my life is proof of the extreme opposite of that.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the past 15 years from the Vickie Remoe Show, to Swit Salone, this blog, my social commentary, children’s books and the campaign to Make Sierra Leone Famous.

Mi nos de ron snot naw (lol) so let me stop and go handle that :-).

Thank you.

I love you.

x

Vickie

PS - See you in Maryland on March 12 for the Make Sierra Leone Famous Showcase.