Articles by Abdulai Mansaray

The African continent is hugging the headlines today, but relatively for the wrong reasons. With the dust seemingly settling and the waves apparently ebbing away, the dearth of emotions that [Read more]

In times like these, our country has become embroiled in so much legal and constitutional wrangling, that some of us have actually given up in trying to makes sense of [Read more]

 “Ten American aid workers who may have been exposed to Ebola are being brought back to the US from Sierra Leone. On Friday (13/03/15), it was announced that a US [Read more]

News bombshells are fast becoming a weekly feature on the Sierra Leonean psyche, and the politicians are taking up front row seats. If they are not manufacturing the news, the [Read more]

Corruption has always been seen as worse than prostitution. But while prostitution might endanger the morals of an individual, corruption invariably endangers the morals of an entire country. Let no [Read more]

There is always the tendency for constitutions to become the ultimate tyranny. Sometimes, they can be used as social power mobilised with no conscience. If used wrongly, they can have [Read more]

When a proposal, at a meeting held in the offices of The Sportsman in London on 20th July 1871, by the FA Honorary Secretary Charles Alcock “that it is desirable [Read more]

You could feel the sigh of relief and if you try a bit harder, you could palpate it as well. Imagine the number of “thank God”, “praise the lord”, “praise [Read more]

The Premiership is entering the business phase, and the mind games have already started. With the Chief Rabbi of Mind games, Sir Alex Fergusson, duly retired, it is not surprising [Read more]

This is the kind of moral and ethical ingredients one would wish to see in society’s book of recipes to cook a very tasty dish of democracy. You would need [Read more]

When Steven Gerrard called time on his Liverpool career a few days ago, a lot of conjectures sprung up, ranging from the realistic, the romantic, and the sentimentalist, down to [Read more]

It’s that time of the year; the season of good will, and on earth peace to all men. We are literally half way into the Premier League season and things [Read more]

The world of football was shocked to see Luis Alberto Suarez Diaz bite his fellow professional, Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during the match between the two countries. The ensuing outrage was [Read more]