This is Part Two of our special National Remembrance Day series.

In this episode of Honestly Speaking, Antonia Howard picks up a difficult but necessary question:

How did a country like Sierra Leone descend into war just thirty years after independence?

Building on conversations from Part One at the Peace Museum and the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, Part Two brings together voices who lived through the war, documented it as it unfolded, and tried to make sense of it in real time.

Featuring reflections from:

• Hannah Fullah

• Dr. Julius Spencer

• Professor Joe A. D. Alie

The episode interrogates the causes of the war — governance failures, inequality, youth marginalisation — and asks what happens when history is misunderstood, ignored, or passed on in fragments.