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One of West Africa’s oldest markets – Freetown’s King Jimmy getting more than a facelift
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One of West Africa’s oldest and historic markets established during the slave trade, which saw hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Africans, shipped across the ocean to America to work on plantations, is to be rebuilt into a modern indoor market. The
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- The Sierra Leone TelegraphOne of West Africa’s oldest markets – Freetown’s King Jimmy getting more than a facelift