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My name is Zubah 
Gaweh from Borkeza.

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The thing I want 
to tell you

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Here in Borkeza 
We have three quarters

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The school building here

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here in Borkeza,

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that is Yarkpawalo Zaza school building

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Kokulo Nazbh was the head for the people

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who built the road.

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Nazbh was from Borkeza

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The Mandingo people came here

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to buy Kola nuts.

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They are strangers to us.

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[Asking Interviewer:
Should I stop it? Or should I keep going?]

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As I said there are
three quarters here in Borkeza

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Kokulo Nazbh was the head
for the people who built the road.

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They are the ones
that paved the road from here

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to the junction.

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[Other person:
Which road did they pave?]

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They paved the road from
Borkeza to the junction

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In Loma days,
they would carry him (Kokula)

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on a palanquin to Voinjama and Zorzor.

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The fourth president
used to come here to Borkeza

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they would carry him
on their heads to the riverside.

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There was another manager here

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he was a Kpelle man

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Kama was his name.

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That manager for them

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was from Woizu, he was a Kpelle man.

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The time they were building the road,

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the road to Lofa

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He was the manager

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From Bokeza to Lofa.

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When they built the road,

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they had no shovel

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they had no axe,

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only cutlass and stick.

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They used to be poking
with the stick

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and taking the mud.

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The time
they were building the road

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from Wakezu to Zigda

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no pail, no rubber,
they would just fire it good

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they would pack the mud down.

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They would take the mud

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And use that mud to build the road

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The manager for that road,

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they used to call him Bubille

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Bubille, he came to the river

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to say no more palanquin,

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he told them just fix the road.

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Then a new company came

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the company was called Rayman

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to build the road

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from Zorzor to Voinjama.

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They had a machine, the CAT

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they used it to make the road

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They used
to be passing and see people

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carrying something
on their heads and say stop it.

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Rayman said that if someone does this

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they’re not responsible for that.

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It is not good to use palanquin.

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That is why the company carried reports

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to Prince Tawbar

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and he says they should put a stop it.

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At that time teachers,

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their wives,

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all would go in the palanquin.

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The manager used to come

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and tell them

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“carry me to Voinjama.”

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So they would pass

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by the bush road.

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At that time they

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didn't have flashlights.

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They would use the bush light,

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they would cut bamboo

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and light it

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to use that one as a light.

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To get to Bunwen would take 8 hours

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From Zigida to Bunwen is eight hours.