Ebola in Guinea: reggae plays on in Gueckedou as clubbers try to relax
On a Saturday night recently two teenagers, David and Fofana, defied their parents’ orders to stay at home and slipped out as night enveloped the rice fields. They hitched rides on the back of motorbikes that brought them towards the bright lights of one of the few clubs still open in Gueckedou.
What elsewhere would be an act of youthful rebellion, was a chance to remember the way things used to be before Ebola came to Guinea. For a few hours, music could sweep away the grief and fear stalking alongside the disease that has killed almost 5,000 people across west Africa since the outbreak began in this market town in the lush hinterlands of the country.
via Ebola in Guinea: reggae plays on in Gueckedou as clubbers try to relax.