The optimist of 'Sweet Salone'

By Michael Gordon
Updated November 18 2017 - 1:38am, first published 1:35am

Bailor Barrie is standing in the middle of the biggest slum in Freetown, home to the very poorest people of West Africa's Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries on earth, in animated conversation with a woman who is refusing to take her medicine.

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