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Random Musing: Butterfly Politics lifts the Veil of Secrecy from Fakes

05/05/2012 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Forgive me for breaking my promise that I was taking a short break in honour of my brother, the late Olu Gordon. But even he would have been filled with [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Our Barn of Hypocrisy.

25/03/2012 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

An old African saying states that when a child trips, he looks ahead of him to see who is watching; but when an elder falls, he looks behind to see [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Al-Jazeering’ the Truth?

24/03/2012 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

The fly that refuses sound advice will eventually end up with the coffin in the grave.  That is my counsel to those in the corridors of power who have ears; [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Three Legged Democracy On One Foot.

01/02/2012 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

If we are serious about redistributing power, those with hidden agendas and selfish anti-people interests have to be shunted aside and a level playing field for equity and social justice needs to be established [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Tiger by the Tail

20/01/2012 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Electoral violence is not simply a political problem. It is a national issue whose poison will spill over into our compounds as revolting chants of desperadoes increasingly raise the temperature of those sickened by naked use of power and by the sickening arrogance of nit wits. [Read more]

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YAD Concludes Annual TVET Graduation in Grand Style

26/01/2026

On January 23rd and 24th, 2024, YAD added another chapter to its ongoing youth and women’s empowerment initiatives by hosting its annual TVET graduation in a spectacular fashion. Each year, [Read more]

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The Silence of the Lambs: Why Sierra – Leone’s Legal Guardians Must Not Stand Aside: Comparative Lessons and Constitutional Theory for a Critical Moment

25/01/2026

n Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals themselves but the silence that has settled around them. [Read more]

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Democracy After Empire: George M. Carew’s Case for Deliberation in Postcolonial Africa

25/01/2026

A familiar strain of Western political theory has long portrayed African states as inherently incapable of self-government—an outlook that endured both the rhetoric of colonial “civilizing missions” and the administrative [Read more]

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BARMAGEDDON- (An E-Bar Exclusive) 004: A Constitution Rewritten for Order, Not for Liberty

25/01/2026

There is a peculiar habit in young democracies. They rewrite their constitutions not when liberty is openly threatened, but when authority feels insufficiently secure. The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) [Read more]

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