In 2004, after 15 years of civil war, a group of former child soldiers came to live among these ruined villas, built during the ’70s for the richest families in Monrovia.They were involuntary participants in this bloody conflict, used by both rebel and government forces; the war survivors who were trying to carve themselves a future in a country still poor and without hope. Nowadays, they\u2019re the African version of Jorge Amado\u2019s \u201cCapitaes de areia\u201d (Captains of the sands), a group of children who have grown up too quickly, and have chosen to unite together in order to survive, and forget their murders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That community learned how to make use of all the sand on their huge beach in order to build bricks, and how to fish for cat-fish from the lagoon to resell them to the market. Nowadays, protected by the reassuring roar of the waves, the Tortoise Community\u2019s members try, little by little, to rebuild their own imagined horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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