A definition of a Tribe: "A conglomerate of human individuals that identify themselves as a distinguishable entity and whose aesthetic sense, common to all members of the entity, serves as a sanction of their nationality in their struggle through the natural process of evolution. We are the Sierra Leonean People of #TribeONE 

The GWB Commission Presents the 7th Annual GWB Ball. A call to action of ONE Sierra Leone, not divided by our differences, but brought together by the place we call home and love, Sierra Leone. ONEHEART. ONEPEOPLE. ONECOUNTRY. 

Mama birthed us

And laid us on a mountain

Deep down inside where the river bends but it cannot break

Can’t you see the curve it makes when you thought it all would end?

The soles underneath her shoes reveal the long walks across cities before she arrived here

Malian melodies sounding in the eardrums of a dancing Mousso

We passed through Bombali

Speaking of the coming together of Mbaa na and Nyie na

One foot in Fouta

“Seke” the river said

Hello back in Kindia

Echoes heard by all

It was her echo that carried the Amistad back to where it lay at fault

Deeper inside the Atlantic, all of our faces are known

Adjusting well to the order of too much sense and too many cents

There is music playing somewhere

We here heard it all

Yengema played the Kora

Where are we after all?

Everyone here acts like family

Yet no one claims us Kin

Njagbe was Uncle to Nephew

At least we know that much

Except if you ask the Nephew

He’ll deny it all

No wonder why Safroko taps the palm wine

And comes down to share the joy

The sound of her labor echoed

From Koinadugu to Kamakwei

Along the crease of the river Rokel

Anchors have been digging the water’s bed for years

Yet only her fingers could untangle this amount of history in her braids

But didn’t you know the river bends, but it can never break

All is lost if you see a curve

And say it is the end

Deep down inside, the river bends

From the depths of Fouta, wide beyond the rivers of Guinea

While in love with nature’s course itself

Mama birthed us

Wrapping all of her lapa around us

Carrying us on her back

Carrying

Us

On

Her Back

-Akindele Decker

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