Articles by Abdulai Mansaray

The general election in Sierra Leone has come and gone. The drums may appear to have fallen silent, but like a swimming duck, there’s on going diplomatic gymnastics bubbling underneath [Read more]

As controversial as the question in the title might sound, Africa and especially its generations need to wrap their heads round this question. In the face of democracy as a [Read more]

It might have started long before Patrice Lumumba of the then Congo was betrayed and killed by the Belgians. Since then, the political history of Africa is known as the [Read more]

There seems to be a new political wind blowing across the Sahel, and the congealed ideologies within this wind of change is generally felt across the African continent. If the [Read more]

Depending on the lens you are using, it has been a while since Sierra Leone made positive waves on the international stage. While some maintain that like the world over, [Read more]

When violence appears to do good, it is temporary and the evil it does is permanent (M. Gandhi). Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will always make violent revolutions in [Read more]

President Biden once said during a political rally that “we choose truth over facts”, a gaffe that has since haunted his presidency to this day. That was not the first [Read more]

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess fills political graveyards. Nothing is more attractive than loyalty.  Patriotic citizens always show loyalty to their  country, but to the government only [Read more]

The politics in Sierra Leone may be reaching its crescendo, but it’s the political musical chairs that is making the headlines in the rag tags and social media. After Yumkella [Read more]

It is becoming increasingly fashionable to see our politicians gate crashing religious events and prayer meetings these days in Sierra Leone. With barely two months to the general elections in [Read more]

The late President Siaka Probyn Stevens has been credited with the unenviable accolade as midwife of Sierra Leone’s economic demise, after he rammed the proverbial One-Party State system down the [Read more]

It is no secret that with the world economies taking a battering in recent years, the 2008 financial crisis,the first in the 21st century, a severe worldwide financial crisis was [Read more]

Sierra Leone is gearing up for its forthcoming elections in June this year, and there is no running away from the fact that the politicking and political gymnastics are in [Read more]