Articles by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Since my arrival in town, I have realised that by embracing that delusional emotion called expectation, Sierra Leoneans have been able to devise a survival strategy against the steady rumble [Read more]

If truth be told, the trouble with the contraption of a nation called Sierra Leone, is, double standards, ethnically-tainted, tribally-misrepresented viewpoints and dogmatist hollow standpoints. Hypocrisy has become the national [Read more]

Without a shadow of doubt, to get out of the dark place we currently find ourselves, it has become imperative that we get rid of all those who have, or [Read more]

Self-delusion is bad but collective self-delusion is truly the ultimate. It is clear that the government cannot be trusted to exhibit or stand with integrity. But whether the abnormal, modish [Read more]

In the midst of our economic fog and descent into bleak house in slow motion, I had planned to reflect in absolute silence as 2016 gave way to this New [Read more]

“We rode over what they have called the longest bridge in the world, which is over 40 kilometers and these are all inspirational visits. They have inspired me to work [Read more]

You can’t kill the dead, can you? One of our problems is that having outsourced virtually our very existence to other cultures’ understanding frameworks, our society has now funked; as [Read more]

As more and more programmes for the agenda for austerity, oops; sorry, I mean prosperity, are rolled out by the government and my mind wonders to the goings-on in Sierra [Read more]

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m [Read more]

One of the huge elephants in the room of our national existence is the fact that for so long our cockroach (the nation) has been willing to dance in the [Read more]

“Development is a tough process and prosperity does not come on a silver platter.” These two things require effective collaboration and perseverance, not “layback theoretical prescriptions” and “half-hearted political grandstanding” [Read more]

Came back from a West African tour to the increasing discourse about the national economic realities; as our hustlers’ paradise begin to unravel. That mighty white elephant in the room [Read more]

I listened to Palo Conteh, the Minister of Internal Affairs, shooting from the hips in an interview in which he was literarily telling the world, with all the glee of [Read more]