My Father Alpha Sesay

My father Alpha Sesay is a Sierra Leone native, who immigrated to the United States in 2006. Alpha was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone on, October 9, 1970. Alpha was a sophomore in college when the Civil War began. As a strong willed young man Alpha fought to finish his education by all means possible. He successfully completed his undergraduate in 1994. In 2000, Alpha attended the University of Manchester in England and earned his Masters of the Arts in 2001. In 2002 Alpha returned to Sierra Leone and worked for the governments’ Ministry of Health and Sanitation. His job was to coordinate NGOs and donor support in the health sector to the Government of Sierra Leone. He later went to the Poverty Alleviation Strategy Coordinating Office as a
poverty expert. In 2013, Alpha was admitted at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to pursue his second master’s in Public Administration. Alpha graduated from Harvard in 2014, returning to his job in Sierra Leone as a program coordinator. He is currently employed by the Integrated Project Administration Unit, in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. In this interview Alpha discusses how the war has affected his life, the country of Sierra Leone and the citizens of Sierra Leone. During the interview he goes into further detail about his reaction to the war and why it started. Alpha also discusses what motives fueled the brutality of the war.