Articles by Abdulai Mansaray

The people of Sierra Leone, and especially the president and his family have been hit by the death of Mrs. Alice Koroma, the mother of the President of Sierra Leone. [Read more]

Now that the European Championship is finally over, and Spain has shown the rest of Europe how to kick the ball around, the usual managerial merry-go-round can begin in earnest. [Read more]

Now that the euphoria, the excitement and exhilaration of the English Premier League has died down, except if you live in the blue half of Manchester, it’s time to take [Read more]

The term “corruption” has always been synonymous with power. Some believe that corruption is simply about authority plus monopoly minus transparency. Power has been known to attract the corruptible. But [Read more]

As legends come, you cannot get a bigger living football legend on the banks of the River Mersey than Kenny Dalglish. Kenny Dalglish had returned to manage Liverpool Football Club [Read more]

In Greece yesterday, the Olympic flame was lit by beautifully clad “Greek Goddesses” in Athens; to mark the beginning of the customary journey that ushers in every Olympic session. The [Read more]

As the English Premier League limps towards its climax, it has been a sad state of affairs that rather than treating the fans to the nerve-jarring and finger biting moments, [Read more]

In October last year, I commented on the political ramifications of the downfall of Gaddaffi under the headline “End of an era: Who, what and where next?” Prominent among my [Read more]

From the north of the Limpopo, right down to the south of the Sahara, pre-colonial empires have risen and fallen.  There was the Songhai, the Mutapa, Ghana, Mali and right [Read more]

On a day that Tottenham Hotspurs emphatically announced their arrival to the high table of English football with a thumping hammering of Newcastle FC, it was sad that the talk [Read more]

It happened and succeeded in Libya, but to a point; as the unintended outcomes of the NATO intervention still reverberates on the shores of the country. The jury is still [Read more]

The position of the Sierra Leonean Vice President, Chief Sam Sumana, has become the boiling point of the country’s political debate, after he was featured in a timbergate scandal by the Qatar based news outlet, Al-Jazeera. Analyst and newsmen are predicting conflicting outcomes of the investigation as the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, who has the last saying, still maintain silence about the issue. [Read more]

Members of the UN Security Council are flying back home with total disappointment after China and Russia double-vetoed the proposed resolution on Syria. Abdulai Mansaray analyses why the veto, its possible consequences on the ordinary Syrians and the inevitable picture of a post Assad Syria. [Read more]