August 2024 – Critique Echo Newspaper

Has Democracy Lost Its Utility?

31/08/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

“A government by the people, of the people and for the people” has always been the most celebrated and simplest definition of DEMOCRACY. Conventional wisdom has it that the term [Read more]

The United States of America: A Democracy of Ironies

06/08/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of 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]

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]