A graduate student of mine was reading a book about Sierra Leone, and she discovered that the word "Kenema," the hospital that we work at and the city where we work in Sierra Leone, is named after the Mende word for "clear like a river, translucent and open to the public gaze."
Moja apsolventica je čitala knjigu o Sierri Leone, i otkrila je da riječ "Kenema" znači bolnica u kojoj radimo i grad  u Sierri Leone u kojem radimo, nosi ime po riječi iz Mende jezika  "jasan poput rijeke, proziran i otvoren za javnost."