Articles by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

James Garfield once said, “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable”.   My belief is that Sierra Leone is gradually approaching the other side [Read more]

Benjamin Franklins’ famous “Two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner” aptly describes the realities of our convulsing, blood-soaked Sierra Leone today. Between Ebola and [Read more]

Whether David Tam Baryoh was blackmailed into signing a confession which then guaranteed his presidential pardon or temporary release is neither here nor there as far as I am concerned. [Read more]

Since you can never underestimate the evil in politics until you are a victim, we need to be aware that we also don’t have to be the corpse to go [Read more]

The Ebola crisis is bringing to our consciousness a lot of disquieting questions. For one if Ebola were to be eradicated tomorrow where do our leaders  stand on the side [Read more]

The price of leadership is enormous. Of course, it will bear its own burden of distractions, some pleasant, others a little trite. Apart from the level of illiteracy, deep-seated cultural [Read more]

Credit where credit is due. The decibel breaking legislators and members of the executive arm of government bellowing their innocence and showing their displeasure at what they perceive as the [Read more]

Is it me or what? I mean from indications, most of our political leaders are obviously a genre of those who missed the last bus to the real world. It [Read more]

It is unfortunate that we are learning about the deadly Ebola in a hard way, with hundreds of dedicated and innocent compatriots paying the supreme price with their lives.   [Read more]

I am seated in Fokai’ Demby’s delightful Kamboi complex along Kenema’s co-busiest thoroughfare as I watch motorists, bike riders and pedestrians struggling to avoid the bad patch at the Capitol/ [Read more]

For years now, Sierra Leone has been like a boxer coming round after a sniff of smelling salt, with half-remembered taste, smell and sound of the day before yesterday.   [Read more]

2012 elections are the final frontier for transcending the assumed limits of our fears and perceptions; our ethnic tendencies; our political prejudices. It is a new horizon awaiting. The message [Read more]

Recently there was fury in some quarters when rumours quoted a serving minister as saying that chicken was more expensive than a woman in Sierra Leone. But what struck me [Read more]