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It’s Ramadan: Her Excellency Fatima Bio Gives The Greatest Gift.

03/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

It’s early days into the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan and Mrs Bio has given the greatest gift already. Muslims all over the world are observing this sacred month, the [Read more]

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When Mercy Triumphs over Judgement, It Becomes the Badge of Nobility.

27/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

The case of Hawa Hunt (H.H), a Calgary woman who was  detained since December over past social media criticism of Sierra Leone’s President and First lady, (Calgary Herald, 23rd Feb, [Read more]

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Sierra Leoneans Will Not Forgive or Forget Anyone Who Makes Their Country a Drug Den

20/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Sierra Leone has a rich history, from slavery and the slave trade as one of the worst indelible marks on the conscience of mankind, to Sierra Leone emerging as a [Read more]

Africa

Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders.

15/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre [Read more]

Critique Column

Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of the Separation of Powers

14/01/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Rightly or wrongly, President Bio has had and continues to have his fair share of criticisms from the public, the media and his political opponents. Winston Churchill once said that [Read more]

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The Politics of Legacy or The legacy of Politics

18/12/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

When President Maada Bio took tenancy of State House the first time, he was wearing a military fatigue and holding a gun. Thankfully, he did not shoot a bullet in [Read more]

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How United, is The United Nations?

23/09/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

The United Nations, with a current membership of 193 was established in 1945. After the United Nations’ Charter was ratified by its main proponents China, France, The United Kingdom, The [Read more]

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If The Best Politics Is The Right Action, Charity Must Begin at Home.

17/09/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

As Sierra Leone’s politics oscillates between the SLPP and APC, it sometimes takes a lot of effort, reflection and in most cases honest humility to come to terms with losing [Read more]

Critique Column

When Complacency Becomes The Enemy of Stability……In Politics.

09/09/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has through its multilateral armed force ECOMOG, a history of successful military interventions to “restore constitutional order within the region. To sports [Read more]

Critique Column

Let The Punishment Fit The Crime, But Don’t Mistake The Law for Justice.

04/09/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

Although politics in Sierra Leone today is undergoing some form of altered consciousness, thanks to the tribal, regional and base instincts that sometimes strangulate our collective will for national development, [Read more]

America

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]

America

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]

Africa

Does Senegal Give Hope to Third Parties In Africa?

08/04/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

Senegal has just voted for Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 44 as one of Africa’s youngest Presidents. This is coming at a time when countries like America are grappling with the choice [Read more]

America

When The Ignorant Are In The Majority, Democracy Slides Towards Autocracy.

27/03/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

The ancient Greeks are credited with inventing democracy, “Demos kratos” which literally translates to “people power” as a form of government. Some therefore describe democracy as a government of the [Read more]

Critique Column

When The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain: KUSH.

22/03/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

It is an open secret that Sierra Leone is in the grip of another pandemic, KUSH.  With its fair share of horrible outbreaks like the Ebola and Covid 19, many [Read more]

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Critique Column

Farewell to a Trailblazer – Dr Kadi Sesay (1949–2025)

16/06/2025

Dr Kadi Sesay, feminist, scholar, politician, and pro-democracy advocate, passed away in the United States after a prolonged illness. She was 76. Family sources confirmed her death after a prolonged [Read more]

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In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins

10/06/2025

The fallout from the “bromance” between Trump and Elon Musk was just a matter of time before the final blowout. Recent reports about the implosion between the most powerful man [Read more]

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With Organised Hypocrisy, People’s Indifferences & Impunity Are the Best Breeding Grounds for Corruption to Grow.

31/05/2025

An article titled “SLPP accused of planning to steal 2028 elections by creating new electoral districts in its stronghold and Freetown” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com (May 29-2025) seems to invoke post 2023 general [Read more]

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An Idiot’s Guide to Winning an Election.

28/05/2025

If a week is a long time in politics, think of what five years in opposition feels like. After a 10 year stint in power, the APC Party found itself [Read more]

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