The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies – Volume, Edition 1 – December 2019 John Birchall

The principle followed by the interested people of the East will be one of careful attention to the oil palm, as opposed to the laissez-faire attitude of the people of the West. [...] For this period, the "Porroh Society" forbids the picking of the fruit and places the "Porroh" on the palm bush to prevent the people picking the nuts until all the farms have been prepared for planting, and to allow the fruit to ripen thoroughly. [...] They have also encouraged and superintended the cleaning and care of the trees and the planting of the young trees and have discouraged the tapping of the trees for palm wine. [...] As time progressed, industrialised countries remained at the top of the economic ladder, the situation in the South worsened, and the focus of development shifted from bridging the gap between the economies of the North and the South, to the moral duty of alleviating poverty (Rist, 2014). [...] In the wake of this tragedy, in 2005, Sierra Leone began to address decades of economic mismanagement and corruption and years of inadequate attention to the condition of the poor, all the while attempting to meet the target of the 8 MDGs in just ten years (Government, 2005).