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  • [ 03/02/2019 ] The Betrayal Of Trust Carries A Heavy Taboo. Critique Column
  • [ 24/09/2023 ] The Existence of Parliaments and Elections Alone, Don’t Define Democracy. Critique Column
  • [ 14/09/2023 ] NGOs Converge On Their Current State Of Affairs Latest Post
  • [ 11/09/2023 ] When Dictatorship Is A fact, Revolution Becomes A Right., Critique Column
  • [ 04/09/2023 ] If Voting Made Any Difference, Would They Let Us Do It? Critique Column
  • [ 24/08/2023 ] Is Sierra Leone’s Democracy Worthy of Emulation? Critique Column
  • [ 17/08/2023 ] Should The Whole of The African Continent Support the Coups in The Sahel? Africa
  • [ 12/08/2023 ] Are The Coups in West Africa A Third World Movement to Decolonise the African mind? Africa
  • [ 07/08/2023 ] When Democracy Fights Democracy, A Country Disappears from The People’s Consciousness. Africa
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The Existence of Parliaments and Elections Alone, Don’t Define Democracy.

24/09/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

Many would have expected the conduct of the June 23rd elections in Sierra Leone to seal the political wrangling, gerrymandering, and politicking until another cycle. Some hoped that it would [Read more]

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When Dictatorship Is A fact, Revolution Becomes A Right.,

11/09/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

We are living in a world that is drowning in a wealth of information but afflicted by poverty of thought. Such a notion conjures images of social media, with all [Read more]

Critique Column

If Voting Made Any Difference, Would They Let Us Do It?

04/09/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

The US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken issued a press statement on 31 August, 2023 on the visa restriction policy to be applied in Sierra Leone. Here is the [Read more]

Critique Column

Is Sierra Leone’s Democracy Worthy of Emulation?

24/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

The general election in Sierra Leone has come and gone. The drums may appear to have fallen silent, but like a swimming duck, there’s on going diplomatic gymnastics bubbling underneath [Read more]

Africa

Should The Whole of The African Continent Support the Coups in The Sahel?

17/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

As controversial as the question in the title might sound, Africa and especially its generations need to wrap their heads round this question. In the face of democracy as a [Read more]

Africa

Are The Coups in West Africa A Third World Movement to Decolonise the African mind?

12/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

It might have started long before Patrice Lumumba of the then Congo was betrayed and killed by the Belgians. Since then, the political history of Africa is known as the [Read more]

Africa

When Democracy Fights Democracy, A Country Disappears from The People’s Consciousness.

07/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

There seems to be a new political wind blowing across the Sahel, and the congealed ideologies within this wind of change is generally felt across the African continent. If the [Read more]

Critique Column

Say What You Want but Never Say It with Violence

21/06/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

Depending on the lens you are using, it has been a while since Sierra Leone made positive waves on the international stage. While some maintain that like the world over, [Read more]

Critique Column

What Happened To “Never Again”?

21/06/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

When violence appears to do good, it is temporary and the evil it does is permanent (M. Gandhi). Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will always make violent revolutions in [Read more]

Critique Column

In Just 5 Years: Even with Covid-19 and war in Ukraine… President Bio has done far better than 11 years of Ernest Bai Koroma (Part 2)

05/06/2023 By Ibrahim Labor Fofana

In Part One of this article, I promised to do a Part 2 where I will present more of President Julius Maada Bio’s achievements and show how in just five [Read more]

Critique Column

When God Created Politicians, Was He Only Joking?

01/06/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

President Biden once said during a political rally that “we choose truth over facts”, a gaffe that has since haunted his presidency to this day. That was not the first [Read more]

Critique Column

Guess Who’s Running For President?

29/05/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess fills political graveyards. Nothing is more attractive than loyalty.  Patriotic citizens always show loyalty to their  country, but to the government only [Read more]

Critique Column

Is A Temporary Coalition of Anger Against the Old Regime A Basis For A Stable Government?

12/05/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

The politics in Sierra Leone may be reaching its crescendo, but it’s the political musical chairs that is making the headlines in the rag tags and social media. After Yumkella [Read more]

Critique Column

Is it Easier to Fool People Than to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled?

26/04/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

It is becoming increasingly fashionable to see our politicians gate crashing religious events and prayer meetings these days in Sierra Leone. With barely two months to the general elections in [Read more]

Critique Column

Sierra Leone: Where Politics is Too Important to Take Seriously

27/03/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

Sierra Leone is gearing up for its forthcoming elections in June this year, and there is no running away from the fact that the politicking and political gymnastics are in [Read more]

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Critique Column

The Existence of Parliaments and Elections Alone, Don’t Define Democracy.

24/09/2023

Many would have expected the conduct of the June 23rd elections in Sierra Leone to seal the political wrangling, gerrymandering, and politicking until another cycle. Some hoped that it would [Read more]

Latest Post

NGOs Converge On Their Current State Of Affairs

14/09/2023

At an emergency membership meeting held on Friday, 8th September, 2023 at the St Anthony Hall, Syke Street, Freetown, NGOs gathered to chart a way forward in their affairs, as [Read more]

Critique Column

When Dictatorship Is A fact, Revolution Becomes A Right.,

11/09/2023

We are living in a world that is drowning in a wealth of information but afflicted by poverty of thought. Such a notion conjures images of social media, with all [Read more]

Critique Column

If Voting Made Any Difference, Would They Let Us Do It?

04/09/2023

The US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken issued a press statement on 31 August, 2023 on the visa restriction policy to be applied in Sierra Leone. Here is the [Read more]

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