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Sierra Leone's Chief National Electoral Commissioner Dr. Christiana Thorpe

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There is an old woman who lives somewhere in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. She claims that she was a "very sound footballer." Her head is now adorned with sparkling gray hair. She has a great sense of humor. She reads the newspapers daily. She has a daughter whom journalists can't help but write about — often. Her daughter brings her the newspapers. Mother teases daughter every chance she gets. And that's very often, because every week Dr. Christiana Ayoka Mary Thorpe, head of the National Electoral Commission (N.E.C.), is mentioned in the Sierra Leoenean media.
"I see they went to town on you in the papers today," is just one of several ways Mrs. Effumi Thorpe, the 85-year old mother of Dr. Thorpe, greets her daughter upon her arrival home from her daily task of overseeing Sierra Leone's recently-past landmark elections. And for the woman who always has a disarming smile that could make a saint of Lucifer, the joke is often well taken.
A rather curious fact about Effumi is that she seems not the least bit ruffled about the enormous task her daughter has taking on. She posits that Christiana had been prepared for the job when she was only a little girl: "She has been taught to say the truth. Regardless of whoever is around, she will say the truth. The truth never fails, my dear. She has been taught to be honest and truthful."
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