Sanni Abacha Street

Sanni Abacha Street is a popular busy street in freetown's main market area. Sani Abacha was the Nigerian President who sent the Nigerian military under the ECOMOG flag to liberate Freetown from rebel forces during the Sierra Leonean civil war. He is highly regarded and praised in Sierra Leone hence a street being named after him.

No nonesense, tough market women are called "Abacha Woman" in freetown.Read more