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Apr 29, 20070

Letter from Liberia - The Observer

by Zadie Smith for the Observer Magazine
There are no direct flights from England to Liberia. Either you go to Brussels or you book with Astraeus, a specialist airline named after a Roman goddess of justice. They run a service to Freetown, in neighbouring Sierra Leone. The clientele is mostly Africans dressed as if for church. [...]

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