Timothy Musa Kabba was captured twice by Sierra Leone rebels, compelled as a child to carry heavy head-loads through hazardous bush terrain and forced to witness atrocities that traumatised his young mind — wounds that he says ultimately healed during a long and tortuous journey to salvation.
Born to Muslim parents in the village of Tongo Fields, a mining community whose war-time travails were dramatised in the 2006 film Blood Diamond, Kabba schooled first at Kenema’s Holy Trinity and then at St Francis Secondary School in Makene, where his mother found work as a midwife.
