Aminatta Forna discusses her book The Memory of Love on BBC WS Africa (part 1)
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The Memory of Love is the latest novel of Sierra Leonean and Scottish writer Aminatta Forna, she visited Bush House studios for a chat with the BBC's Bola Mosuro.
Part one - Confronting the past
The lives of the three central characters are interwoven; Elias Cole is an old history professor who taught at a Freetown university before and after Sierra Leone's first coup in 1969.
Kai Mansaray is dedicated to his profession at Freetown's Central Hospital, but plagued by memories of life before and during the civil war which began in 1991.
He bonds with British psychologist, Adrian who is running from his own demons in the UK.
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