Bessem Riko Man"s
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Bessem Riko Man"s
@mbessem26
Game Changer
Freetown Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 Beigetreten Haziran 2023
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“Dem lek watin you dae do, but hate way nor to dem dae do am. Jealousy equals to love, plus hate…”
-@drizilik
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@FrancisTuray8 My Sympathy Brotherly 🫂🙏
Continue to Rest in Peace Mummy..🙏
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The job has been difficult to handle, and life has been challenging for me since the start of this year. At the moment, my mental health is not in the best state, and I believe taking a break will help me rest, reset, and return more focused if not I'm dying slowly 😪 #SaloneX
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A true life story
Minkilu was a young man everyone had given up on already considered dead.
But God used me to give him life again.
After 8 years, he came all the way from Bo, and by God’s grace, I took him back to his family in Bo.
Recovery is real. God still restores #SaloneX




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The most powerful cloth in the world is Ronko. The Ronko material is not merely cloth; it is covenant. It is power made tangible, a garment that breathes memory, hierarchy, ancestral presence, and spiritual defence.
To speak of Ronko is to speak of lineage, of protection stitched into fibre, of authority woven by hands that understand both the seen and the unseen.
In Sierra Leone, the term Ronko refers to a traditional garment-often described as a “medicine shirt” or ceremonial gown-crafted from locally hand-woven country cloth, not cotton, as it is so often and carelessly mistaken for.
Its significance runs deep, particularly among the Limba, Madingo/Koranko, and Temne peoples of the northern region. This is not fabric for fashion’s sake, it is fabric with consequence.
If you are from the North of Sierra Leone, you will know that Ronko is among the most celebrated, most feared, and most treasured of all cloths.
It is not for everyone, and it is never casual. A Ronko garment is made for a specific individual. It is not passed around or worn interchangeably.
It belongs to you, and to you alone-unless you consciously and intentionally choose to hand it over. To do otherwise would be to misunderstand its essence.
The making of Ronko is an act of endurance and devotion. It is not a day’s work, nor a hurried process. Time, sweat, and patience are required.
Its colours are born of the earth itself-natural herbs, roots, and nuts-each carrying its own symbolism and potency. Nothing about Ronko is rushed; nothing about it is accidental.
Historically, Ronko shirts were worn by hunters and warriors, by men who ventured into danger as a matter of duty. They clothed members of militias such as the Tamaboroh during the civil war, and adorned medicine men whose work demanded spiritual fortification.
Today, Ronko continues to mark passages of power and responsibility: male initiates entering adulthood, paramount chiefs during installation ceremonies, and those of us in the modern world who choose to honour heritage rather than abandon it(like myself).
I carry Ronko not as costume, but as inheritance. I have a personal collection-materials and garments commissioned specifically for me by my Baba, Momorie-Fina.
I wear them with reverence and pride, sewing them into different forms, allowing tradition to converse with the present. Some remain as quilts, which I travel with wherever I go-silent guardians folded into my journey.
The Ronko I wrap around myself here is one of many. I wear it with pride, with purpose, and with poise-not to perform identity, but to live it.
I am clothed in ancestry.
I am wrapped in protection.
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