On Friday morning, as Sierra Leone marked Eid al-Fitr, I watched what I have watched every year of my life: thousands of Muslims streaming into open fields across Freetown, Bo, Kenema and Makeni, laying their prayer mats on dusty ground beneath a furious March sun. They came to pray. They stayed for hours to hear the imam deliver the khutbah. …
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