When Femi Claudius Cole decided to form a political party, to address what she saw as Sierra Leone’s slow economic development and poor governance, she knew it would be tough. But the former nurse could not have predicted quite how gruelling it would be: spending time in jail and fighting for her reputation.
The Unity party, registered by Cole in 2017, failed to win any seats in the 2018 general election. But she persevered and co-founded the Consortium of Progressive Political Parties,