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Month: August 2020

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Beware of the Naked Man Who Offers You clothes: The Politics of Hate.

26/08/2020 Abdulai Mansaray

The advent of social media at face value, should be a blessing and a rod of enlightenment. Before social media, the manufacturing, dissemination and consumption of information was totally controlled [Read more]

Critique Column

A Moment of Epiphany? There is Blood on The Carpet

23/08/2020 Abdulai Mansaray

"To solve Sierra Leone’s democratic woes, it is not Maada Bio but Ernest Bai Koroma who must go. Sierra Leone’s problem is not just with Government. We have absence of [Read more]

Critique Column

Who Will Rescue Ernest Koroma’s Legacy?

23/08/2020 Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

It was shortly before the 2018 presidential election, President Ernest Koroma told supporters in Kailahun, a stronghold of the then opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party that the ruling APC will [Read more]

Critique Column

Peace Is Lost, When We Forget That We Belong To Each Other.

23/08/2020 Abdulai Mansaray

It is estimated that about 170 million people make up the African diaspora. But the Africa is yet to unleash the full potential of this group on the continent. Despite [Read more]

Africa

You Can’t Maintain Power, If Only Represented By Hypocrites.

19/08/2020 Abdulai Mansaray

The President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was seized and detained with his Prime Minister Boubou Cisse by the military yesterday. Initial reports indicate that what started as a mutiny [Read more]

Africa

Will Those Who Make Peaceful Evolutions Impossible, Make Violent Revolutions Inevitable?

17/08/2020 CEN

Alpha Conde, the president of Guinea recently received an endorsement from his RPG governing party to run for the 3rd time in the forthcoming Presidential elections. This was a man [Read more]

Critique Column

Denying Realism Amounts to Megalomania

14/08/2020 Abdulai Mansaray

“Government of Sierra Leone explores development of domestic air travel” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com-10/08/20). This was one headline in the Sierra Leone Telegraph that caught my eye this week. According to the newspaper, [Read more]

Critique Column

Gender Equality: Not A woman Issue but A Human Issue.

13/08/2020 Abdulai Mansaray

Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many; that Bio’s [Read more]

Critique Column

Why Our Politics Is So Toxic?

10/08/2020 Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

In the last three years, African countries have registered an overall decline in the quality of political participation and the rule of law. The United States, which has traditionally been [Read more]

Critique Column

Covid -19 Is A Virus, Not A Cash Cow

06/08/2020 Abdulai Mansaray

Since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, life has changed beyond recognition as we know it. But one thing that has not changed and will never change is the [Read more]

Breaking News

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]

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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]

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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]

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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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