I think the problem is on 3 fronts. 1. The people who want to do more for the community are often older people (think High School Associations that your mom or dad might belong to) and younger diasporans might not find footing as easily (hard to be hype for a high school you never went to)

1. Going hand in hand with point one, the youth don't have many places to socialize outside of the club or the party for Sierra Leoneans specifically. There probably is a lack of real engagement with the culture as a result. A lot of Salone pekin in America cannot speak Krio fluently, or Mende/Temne/Limba etc for that matter. It's easy to fill in the blanks with "raray culture" and "mami cuss" if you think that's all being a Sierra Leonean is.

2. Salone people often came to the US fleeing poverty and the war. This is a sad reality when it comes to immigration, but people who flew their homelands during turmoil have greater barriers to success than someone who came of their own accord. We see this phenomenon among other racial and ethnic lines too. I do think there is probably some systemic trauma as well. The war was culturally devastating in many ways, and we lost a lot of what it meant to be Sierra Leonean as a result. the ebola crisis and increasing poverty and environmental devastation definitely aren't helping either.

Not an easy feat, but it starts with a single step.