Utilizing narratives of seven different people—soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician—<i>I Did it To Save My Life</i> provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. Individuals in the town of Makeni narrate survival through the rubric of love, and by telling their stories and bringing memory into the present, create for themselves a powerful basis on which to reaffirm the rightness of...
