Painted wooden planks cover facade of traditional colonial-era Board House on King Street in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown

Painted wooden planks cover facade of traditional colonial-era Board House on King Street in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown

Painted wooden planks cover the facade of a traditional colonial-era Board House dating back about a century on King Street in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown April 27, 2012. It is hard to assess the surviving number of Board Houses in Sierra Leone, some of which were destroyed in the country’s devastating 1991-2002 civil war. Picture taken April 27, 2012. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly (SIERRA LEONE – Tags: SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS – PICTURE 11 OF 29 OF PACKAGE ‘FREETOWN – FADING ARCHITECTURE’