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The Worst Country on Earth
Image from the cover of "In the Land of Magic Soldiers" by Daniel Bergner Email to friend
Sierra Leone has repeatedly been called the worst country on earth to live in. On the coast of West Africa, it's a nation plagued by years of disease, poverty, corruption, and 10 years of a brutal civil war.
As the journalist Daniel Bergner says in his new book: "You likely know it as the place of lost hands." referring to the number of amputees. People there have a life expectancy of thirty-seven years. Bergner traveled through Sierra Leone over a period of two years, documenting the lives of the people he met there. The fighters and the victims; men and women; white and black, and all of them uncertain of their future. In the Land of Magic Soldiers, a new book on savagery and salvation in Sierra Leone.
