A graduate student of mine was reading a book about Sierra Leone, and she discovered that the word "Kenema," the hospital that we work at and the city where we work in Sierra Leone, is named after the Mende word for "clear like a river, translucent and open to the public gaze."
Unha estudante miña estaba lendo un libro sobre Serra Leoa, e descubriu que a palabra "Kenema", o hospital e a cidade onde traballamos en Serra Leoa, provén da palabra Mende "clara como un río, transparente e aberta á mirada pública."