Ibrahim Yousuf Sillah – Critique Echo Newspaper

Calling Jimmy Carter to Islam

24/09/2015 Ibrahim Yousuf Sillah

Former US President Jimmy Carter, a one-term president in the late 1970’s, is one of those American presidents whose contributions on the world stage will always be recognized and appreciated [Read more]

Critique Column

The Executive Is Not a Conveyor Belt — Why Proportional Representation Fails the Test

30/10/2025

The debate over proportional representation (PR) has resurfaced with vigour in Sierra Leone, stirred by comments from the Executive branch and framed by Andrew Keili’s “Ponder My Thoughts.” It is [Read more]

WE WHO VOWED: SHAME ON US

16/10/2025

There are times when a poem arrives like a visitation — not simply as art, but as revelation. Oumar Farouk Sesay’s We Who Vowed: Shame on Us is such a [Read more]

Critique Column

How Do You Solve a Problem Called Jagaban?

08/10/2025

Mohamed Omodu Kamara (MOK), popularly known as Jagaban may have come to the political arena comparatively recently, but he has been hugging the political headlines already. If this was a [Read more]

How Did Sierra Leone Become So Culturally Bankrupt ?

07/10/2025

Ishmael Dyfan, aka Petit Mariano, and the great Brima Mazolla Kamara became Sierra Leone’s first professional footballers when they joined Africa Sport D’Abijan of Ivory Coast. Soon after, East End [Read more]