date:May 05, 2014
n Sierra Leone four years ago to harvest the island's little known, red-spined variety of Stichopus sea cucumbers, they called themselves investors.
When prices skyrocketed, the islanders hoped the windfall would both make them wealthy and bring development to the village.
Moses Taylor, a former village chief known locally as Lord Moe, recalls the visitors' promises with bitterness.
They said they would build water pumps in the street, they said they would build street lights, he said, sprawl