In Sierra Leone, we now think of the world and the nation simultaneously. Despite its conservatism, the Krio Descendants Union (KDU/KDY), founded in 1950, is now defined by dual membership in the diaspora and Sierra Leone. ${ }^{25}$ DNA testing and journeys made between Freetown and the Sea Islands took on a national dimension when, in 1988, President Joseph Saidu Momoh said in South Carolina: 'We are one people despite the distance that separates us' (Ojukutu-Macauley and Rashid, 2013, pp. 65-67). ${ }^{26}$  
The distinctive characteristics of the Krio have now spread to the whole of Sierra Leonean society: Krio has become a national language and education is becoming more widespread, as has Freetown's pidginization model. ${ }^{27}$ The  
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[^0]:    21 http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1375/2870
22 Chapter by Blyden.
23 http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS?end=2015\&locations=SL\&start=19 80\&view=chart
24 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/may/11/remittances-three-times-greater-aid-sdgs
25 http://www.kduglobal.org/
26 Chapter by Blyden.
27 The notion of creolization is problematic, since the term 'Creole' has been repudiated in the context of Sierra Leone. (Spencer-Walters, in Dixon-Fyle and Cole 2006, pp. 223-230).  
peninsula residents face the challenge of playing, on the basis of their noninvolvement in war crimes, a major role in promoting a regional culture of peace (Dixon-Fyle and Cole, 2006, pp. 19-20; Knörr, 2010, pp. 222-226). It is likely that the future of the Creole/Krio will not be the subject of a historical investigation. But the stories of wandering roots, still in the heart of Sierra Leone's history, invite us to rethink the ambivalences of a common African identity construction.