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RANDOM MUSING: From darkness into darkness

27/10/2023 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. We’re truly moving to an era where a lot of Political-Fiction, will become Political-Fact in the not-too-distant future which would transgress laws, precipitating the [Read more]

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Make No Mistake, Our Landscape Has Not Changed, Simply a Forlorn Hope.

18/09/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

It is slightly difficult to disentangle the signal from the cacophony on the socio-economic hardship and the guerrilla warfare of our politics. However, the predatory form of politics which stimulates [Read more]

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Random Musing: The wisdom of yesterday will not suffice for existence today

06/08/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

No matter how much slant is put on it, in politics and governance, perception matters. Ordinarily, reality should drive perception. But most times, perception leads, and muddies the reality. From indications, it [Read more]

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Random Musing: Dancing on Ice

04/07/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

It was and is not our colonial masters that set us against each other. It is not just the political class that has disrobed us of the courage and the [Read more]

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Random Musing: Let He That Thinks He stands Take Heed.

23/04/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

President Bio’s legendry determination to mount the seat of Sierra Leone’s leadership is well known and the performance of his administration and his utterances since assuming power, answer a question [Read more]

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The Political Class Which Kidnapped Our Tomorrow For A Ransom Now Wants To Buy Our Today As Well.

07/08/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Going by the torment of the past decade, the reality is that the political class sees ours and the nation’s future as a game on the field, of which they [Read more]

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No Return to Our Abominable Filth Please.

16/06/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Some might regard most of what you read all over cyberspace as senseless verbal gymnastics but our leaders tend to fuel the hunger of baying dogs, especially those deeply steeped [Read more]

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Hope Rekindled: Let’s Keep Away From A Fantasy Of Idealistic Perversion.

29/05/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Nourishing and tilling the flower beds you can, picking the best scented rose is a different ball-game. Seriously. Any 2-bob gardener can tell you that. So, Can we as a [Read more]

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Beyond The Competing Narratives of our Narcissistic Politicians

07/05/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

If you stay too long in the dark, you begin to see clearly. No matter the effort from those in power, if there is to be a change in Sierra [Read more]

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The Naked Dance In The Market Square.

25/03/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Dark.  Scary. The tragedy of a nation and the demise of integrity. That is what is playing out as we bring to conclusion the 2018 electoral process. Let’s be frank, [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Blinking In The Dark At The Creaking Of a Rusty Gate

28/02/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Sierra Leone’s saving grace is that God, who is cooking our communal soup, has not left the kitchen. Believe me, it does not matter who emerges as president in next [Read more]

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Tomorrow starts today.

02/01/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

I was initially sceptical about wishing you a happy new year, but then within a fleeting moment it occurred to me that with elections just a little over two months [Read more]

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And The Beat Goes On…..

18/11/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Amidst the confetti of eulogies and the blizzards of rhetoric, if we turn off the lights and refuse to dance to the music of our politicians, we might just see [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Stench of insincerity

02/11/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

You know something? As far as I am concerned, unless we review our entire societal ethos and ensure equity and operationally balanced values that will nullify the desire for power [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: A Crown on a Clown will still not produce a King

24/10/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

I think by now we all know what the issues in our country are, but my plea to those who have any shred of love for our traumatised nation, is [Read more]

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Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again.

10/05/2025

Donald Trump and Ibrahim Traore are two leaders who could be best described as “Strange Bedfellows”. Despite being similarly different, their common denominators are viewed through different lenses and prisms.  [Read more]

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True Independence & Freedom Can Only Exist In Doing What Is Right.

30/04/2025

It was 64 years last Sunday when Sierra Leone gained its independence from its colonial master, Great Britain. It marked the end of an era and the dawn of another. [Read more]

Africa

There Will Never be World Peace Until Imperialism is Dead: Hands Off Ibrahim Traore.

29/04/2025

There is no better time for African Unity than now. On April 2, General Michael Langley, a United States (US) Marine Corps, who became the sixth Commander of United States [Read more]

Africa

USA: A great generation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from Within

23/04/2025

 Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never [Read more]

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