Aminatta forna author biography in the back door

In Forna helped to build a primary school in her family's village of Rogbonko. The building of the school was the first step in what would become known as the Rogbonko Project: a community effort to create an escape route from poverty through multiple initiatives in the spheres of education, agriculture, infrastructure and health. She has also published essays and articles, and written for television and radio.

She lives in London.

The first book I wrote was a memoir of my father, who had been a political prisoner in Sierra Leone when I was a child.

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