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Andrew Jah began to ask the same question in Mende, but I interrupted him in Krio, saying, “I speak Krio, Mende, Temne, Limba, and Arabic.”

“What need does she have of womanly chores? She is only a child herself,” Papa would remind his brother, and then couldn’t resist adding: “Yes, not even four years old, and yet she speaks Mende, Temne, Limba, Krio, and Arabic. She picks up languages from the marketplace and learns quickly. She will surely become a scholar.”

Each is a cheeseboard-sized 2-D wall-mounting fashioned from zebrawood, lace wood, bronze wood, mahogany, pine and black limba, with striking bas-relief variations appearing among them.

“I’m hooked on Limba, which is from Africa.”

We educated more than 10,000 people, and explained the message in their languages - Temne, Krio and Limba.