Foday Fofana, a former BBC correspondent in Guinea and Sierra Leone died on Monday in Freetown after a short illness.
The 57-year-old was laid to rest late on Tuesday evening an occasion graced by senior members of the media fraternity including the SLAJ President, Kelvin Lewis who said he was taught a thing or two by the veteran journalist.
Also present were veteran journalist Chris to Johnson himself a former BBC reporter and Isaac Massaquoi who describes his late colleague as "a giant of a journalist".
Foday, fluent in English French and Spanish, reported for the BBC from Conakry and Freetown in the 1980s and early 1990s.
He becomes the third ex-BBC Sierra Leone reporter to die in two years - after his great-nephew Lansana Fofana and Kalilu Kamara.
“Foday was an icon that paved the way for especially the Fofanas in the field of journalism” says BBC correspondent Umaru Fofana who is his nephew and ads:“I drew tremendous inspiration from my late uncle”
(C) Politico 30/03/16
