Katherine Houreld

Out by Monrovia’s crumbling airport is a ramshackle settlement known by the Liberian people as Smell-no-taste. The older people still remember when United States soldiers were stationed there during World War II, tantalising hungry locals with the smell of their rations cooking. More than 50 years later, the people are still hungry and there is still no electricity, but there is a different smell in the air.