SETTINGS OF LET ME DIE ALONE

let me die Alone is set in 19th century Sierra Leone, specifically in Mende Chiefdom in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. Major actions of the play are set in the chief"s palace (barre) located in Senenhun and Moyamba (Chief Gbanya reigned from Senenhun while Queen Yoko reigned from Moyamba). Gbanya's bedroom, Ndapi/Jilo's hut, and the Poro bush. In Gbanya's bedroom, we have various fighting paraphernalia: spears, machetes, and raffia skirts hang on the walls. On the other side of the locale is a shrine made with palm leaves on top of a small box. All of these reflect the traditional setting of the play and projects Gbanya as agreat warrior of reckoning. Moyamba District Queen Yoko moved the chiefdom capital is in the Southern Province and borders the Atlantic Ocean in the west, Port Loko District and Tonkolili District to the north, Bo District to the east and Bonthe District to the south. Its capital and largest city is Moyamba.The other major towns include Njala, Rotifunk and Shenge. The District is the largest in the Southern Province by geographical area. and comprises fourteen chiefdoms, namely: Lower Banta, Upper Banta, Timdale, Bagruwa. Kagboro. Dasse, Kowa, Kaiyamba, Kongbora, Kori, Kamajei, Fakunya, Ribbi and Bumpe. The ethnicity of the district is largely homogeneous with the Mende forming 60% of the population while the other ethnic groups comprise Sherbro,Temne and Loko. The majority (over92%) of the district population resides in rural areas. Agriculture remains the mainstay of the district's residents and the largest sector of economy in the district, providing livelihoods forover 71 % of the population. Crops in the district include oil palm, cereals (maize, rice, sorghum and millet) and starch food crops (yam, cassava and cocoa). In addition, cashew, black pepper, ginger, pineapple and sugarcane are popular farm products in the district. These represent the economic prosperity Queen Yoko anticipates for moving from Senenhun to Moyamba in the play