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AN ODE TO CHINUA ACHEBE

30/12/2017 Abdulai Mansaray

As you walk through the valley of the shadow of death Deep in the belly of THE ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANAH Etched on the mind was, AN IMAGE OF AFRICA [Read more]

Diasporal Exclusive

Azania to perform at Sierra Leone National Storytelling Festival

30/12/2017 Dennis Kabatto

After a stint in Europe, Sierra Leonean singer, songwriter, actress and philanthropist Azania returns home to headline Sierra Leone National Storytelling Festival. The two day festival from Friday, December 29 [Read more]

Critique Column

TOLONGBO VS. TAMEMKOR

28/12/2017 Abdulai Mansaray

As jokes come and go, Sierra Leone’s political landscape has been anything but. It all started when 26 people turned up at the national convention of the APC party, vying [Read more]

Critique Column

Is The The New Robert Mueller In Sierra Leone?

25/12/2017 Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

Watching the AYV television from the Diaspora seems very encouraging and interesting these days. In fact, the station has made millions of Sierra Leoneans to feel at home as they [Read more]

Critique Column

Reasons why Sierra Leoneans Must Think beyond Tribal and Regional Lines Before Casting their Ballots This Time.

07/12/2017 Dr Sorie Gassama, Saudi Arabia

As the national or general elections loom in Sierra Leone and, as a true citizen, I solemnly pray and hope with all hopes that Sierra Leoneans of the voting age [Read more]

Critique Column

Is Yumkella A Curse Or A Blessing To The Sierra Leone Political Landscape?

07/12/2017 Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

In early  last year, Sierra Leonean politics underwent a historic change. A change that seems to reverberate around the youths and especially the Diasporans.  From a  country that revered the [Read more]

Critique Column

The Zoo Keeper and The Politics of Hate In Sierra Leone

07/12/2017 Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

Friday night, in Philadelphia, United States was the scene of political mastery where supporters and sympathizers including core APC, SLPP, ADP and other smaller parties thronged to see the Flagbearer [Read more]

Critique Column

Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Review Up In Smoke- The People Lose Again

06/12/2017 Sonkita Conteh, Director, Namati Sierra Leone

After three years of arduous work collecting, deliberating and collating views across the country for a new constitution, it looks like Sierra Leone may end up not having one- yet [Read more]

Critique Column

The Wealth Which Enslaves Its Owner isn’t Wealth

01/12/2017 Abdulai Mansaray

In a recently, hastily but belated arranged summit drawn up by the African Union(AU) and European Union (EU) in Cote Ivoire, an evacuation plan was devised to evacuate migrants facing [Read more]

Diasporal Exclusive

Albert Academy Stands To Lose Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Educational Resources Due To Bad Leadership

30/11/2017 CEN

When the wrong individuals are designated with the right titles every unimaginable thing becomes imaginable.  This has become order of the day in post conflict Sierra Leone as unpatriotic individuals [Read more]

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5 Lessons Learned From Applying a Legal Empowerment Approach to Community Land Protection in Sierra Leone

29/11/2017 Hassan A. Sesay, Legal Empowerment Advocate, NAMATI

The Namati team in Sierra Leone is engaged in an ongoing effort to discover sustainable measures for community ownership, management, and administration of land and natural resources throughout the country. [Read more]

Critique Column

Reasons why Sierra Leoneans Must Think beyond Tribal and Regional Lines Before Casting their Ballots This Time.

29/11/2017 Dr Sorie Gassama

As the national or general elections loom in Sierra Leone and, as a true citizen, I solemnly pray and hope with all hopes that Sierra Leoneans of the voting age [Read more]

Critique Column

“PETGBO”: The Emperor Strikes Again

27/11/2017 Abdulai Mansaray

The news that “His Excellency the President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has decided to relieve Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden and Mrs Rugiatu Neneh Koroma of their duties as Minister and [Read more]

Diasporal Exclusive

Sierra Leone’s 709-carat Diamond Goes to Auction in New York

26/11/2017 Dennis Kabatto

Sierra Leone’s 709 carat “Peace Diamond”, the 14th largest diamond in the world is set to go on the auction block on December 4 in New York City. The announcement [Read more]

Critique Column

Is it Time for Televised Presidential Candidates’ Debates in Sierra Leone?

21/11/2017 Abdulai Mansaray

I once said that the greatest threat to our democracy was our freedom of expression. Many saw this as paradoxically ironical. But as the election fever heats up, and the [Read more]

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YAD Concludes Annual TVET Graduation in Grand Style

26/01/2026

On January 23rd and 24th, 2024, YAD added another chapter to its ongoing youth and women’s empowerment initiatives by hosting its annual TVET graduation in a spectacular fashion. Each year, [Read more]

Critique Column

The Silence of the Lambs: Why Sierra – Leone’s Legal Guardians Must Not Stand Aside: Comparative Lessons and Constitutional Theory for a Critical Moment

25/01/2026

n Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals themselves but the silence that has settled around them. [Read more]

Critique Column

Democracy After Empire: George M. Carew’s Case for Deliberation in Postcolonial Africa

25/01/2026

A familiar strain of Western political theory has long portrayed African states as inherently incapable of self-government—an outlook that endured both the rhetoric of colonial “civilizing missions” and the administrative [Read more]

Critique Column

BARMAGEDDON- (An E-Bar Exclusive) 004: A Constitution Rewritten for Order, Not for Liberty

25/01/2026

There is a peculiar habit in young democracies. They rewrite their constitutions not when liberty is openly threatened, but when authority feels insufficiently secure. The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) [Read more]

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