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  • [ 29/11/2025 ] CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation Critique Column
  • [ 25/11/2025 ] CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION Critique Column
  • [ 25/11/2025 ] THE WOMAN PRESIDENT. NEXT. Critique Column
  • [ 25/11/2025 ] Beyond Inspiration: Mining Governance in Sierra Leone and the Missed Lessons of Simandou 2040 Critique Column
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CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation

29/11/2025 By Hassan Arouni

This week, Mr. Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, affectionately known to thousands of former pupils simply as SBB, turned 80 years old.   Eighty is a milestone that invites reflection—not only [Read more]

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CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION

25/11/2025 By Oumar Farouk Sesay

When Minister Julius Daniel Mattia wrote his op-ed on Guinea’s Simandou 2040, he was not just offering congratulations across a friendly border. His words carried the rhythm of an older [Read more]

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THE WOMAN PRESIDENT. NEXT.

25/11/2025 Suhood Komeh (UK)

Two important questions women (and men allies), especially those in politics, should and must ask in preparation for Sierra Leone’s 2028 elections are these: 1) If there are no SLPP, [Read more]

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Beyond Inspiration: Mining Governance in Sierra Leone and the Missed Lessons of Simandou 2040

25/11/2025 Pa Kaprr Yoni Emmanuel Sesay

On 12 November 2025, I read with interest an op-ed reflection shared on WhatsApp by Sierra Leone’s Honourable Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, titled “Mining a [Read more]

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Beyond Inspiration: Sierra Leone Must Turn Mining Reflections into Real Reform

25/11/2025 Pa Kaprr Yoni Emmanuel Sesay

On 12 November 2025, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, shared a reflective note titled “Mining a Shared Destiny: Sierra Leone Draws Inspiration from Simandou [Read more]

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Beyond Inspiration: Sierra Leone Must Turn Mining Reflections into Real Reform

14/11/2025 By Pa Kaprr Yoni Emmanuel Sesay

On 12 November 2025, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, shared a reflective note titled “Mining a Shared Destiny: Sierra Leone Draws Inspiration from Simandou [Read more]

Critique Column

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

30/10/2025 Pa Kaprr Yoni Emmanuel Sesay

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]

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How Do You Solve a Problem Called Jagaban?

08/10/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

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]

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War and Drugs: The Double Jeopardy of Sierra Leone’s Youth.

06/10/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

When Sierra Leone weaned itself from the boorish, barbarous and inhuman decade- long war of the 90s, many hoped that it will be the end of savagery in our society. [Read more]

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The Impossible Tide of Globalisation in Sierra Leone.

02/10/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

“Couldn’t place a call. Make sure your device has internet connection and try again”. (WhatsApp call). “The number you’re calling is either switched off or outside coverage area” (Direct phone [Read more]

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The Constitutional Reform That Deforms the APC Party

02/10/2025 By Pa Kaprr Yoni Emmanuel Sesay

The All People’s Congress (APC) was never intended as a conventional political party. From its inception, it was conceived as a remedy for Sierra Leone’s chronic political and social ailments. [Read more]

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From Sale to Salvation: Government, VP, Fawaz, and the Future of the Pilgrimage Estate

27/09/2025 By Oumar Farouk Sesay

Last week, the Muslim Ummah raised its voice in anguish over the sale of the Sierra Leone Pilgrimage estate to Hajj Fawaz. Doubt hung heavy. We had grown used to [Read more]

Critique Column

Fawaz vs. Faith: A Call for Presidential Intervention

23/09/2025 By Oumar Farouk Sesay

In the 1970s and 80s, when performing Hajj was a nightmare for ordinary Sierra Leoneans, a group of visionary Muslim leaders created the Sierra Leone Pilgrimage Movement (SLPM). They gave [Read more]

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The Song of Every Land”: When Landscape Becomes Liturgy

20/09/2025 By Hassan Arouni

I still remember the message that woke me before dawn: “Here’s a song from South Africa.” A YouTube link. I clicked. It was music pulsing with that deep kind of [Read more]

Asia

Why There Are No Presidential Elections in China?

20/09/2025 BY NGUGI MUIGAI

No Chinese citizen wakes up one morning saying, “I’m going to vote for my President.”   WHY? Because the Chinese President is not chosen by the people. He is selected [Read more]

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CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation

29/11/2025

This week, Mr. Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, affectionately known to thousands of former pupils simply as SBB, turned 80 years old.   Eighty is a milestone that invites reflection—not only [Read more]

Critique Column

CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION

25/11/2025

When Minister Julius Daniel Mattia wrote his op-ed on Guinea’s Simandou 2040, he was not just offering congratulations across a friendly border. His words carried the rhythm of an older [Read more]

Critique Column

THE WOMAN PRESIDENT. NEXT.

25/11/2025

Two important questions women (and men allies), especially those in politics, should and must ask in preparation for Sierra Leone’s 2028 elections are these: 1) If there are no SLPP, [Read more]

Critique Column

Beyond Inspiration: Mining Governance in Sierra Leone and the Missed Lessons of Simandou 2040

25/11/2025

On 12 November 2025, I read with interest an op-ed reflection shared on WhatsApp by Sierra Leone’s Honourable Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, titled “Mining a [Read more]

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