The Cotton Tree, Freetown, Sierra Leone, aerial

The Cotton Tree is important in the history of Freetown as it is said that the early settlers held their meetings under one. Nobody knows if this is the cotton tree where they had their meetings but it’s become the symbol of the ideal and the hopes that were bough there by these early settlers.
This photo was taken for Black and British: A Forgotten History, a BBC series revealing the extraordinary long relationship between the British Isles and people whose origins are in Africa.