There is a seeming temptation for people to assume that what is going on in American politics is a far-flung concern for Americans and Americans only. Wrong. As we painfully [Read more]
Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, Sean Cairncross, has continued his two days’ visit to Sierra Leone by meeting His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada [Read more]
(The Guinea incombent and opposition candidates, Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo) Last Sunday’s polling day in the Republic of Guinea has passed with relative calm, but it is the coming [Read more]
The great American country has always prided itself as the High Priest of democracy and even prescribed it as its major export commodity to the world. We all know how [Read more]
The First Lady, Mrs Fatima Bio has been in the news, and some will say for the wrong reasons. Others are inclined to roll their eyes and say, “here we [Read more]
The advent of social media at face value, should be a blessing and a rod of enlightenment. Before social media, the manufacturing, dissemination and consumption of information was totally controlled [Read more]
"To solve Sierra Leone’s democratic woes, it is not Maada Bio but Ernest Bai Koroma who must go. Sierra Leone’s problem is not just with Government. We have absence of [Read more]
It was shortly before the 2018 presidential election, President Ernest Koroma told supporters in Kailahun, a stronghold of the then opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party that the ruling APC will [Read more]
It is estimated that about 170 million people make up the African diaspora. But the Africa is yet to unleash the full potential of this group on the continent. Despite [Read more]
Alpha Conde, the president of Guinea recently received an endorsement from his RPG governing party to run for the 3rd time in the forthcoming Presidential elections. This was a man [Read more]
“Government of Sierra Leone explores development of domestic air travel” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com-10/08/20). This was one headline in the Sierra Leone Telegraph that caught my eye this week. According to the newspaper, [Read more]
Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many; that Bio’s [Read more]
In the last three years, African countries have registered an overall decline in the quality of political participation and the rule of law. The United States, which has traditionally been [Read more]
Since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, life has changed beyond recognition as we know it. But one thing that has not changed and will never change is the [Read more]
To ask whether Africa needs term-timed Presidential democracy is bound to linger on the absurd. However, if Africa is to adopt, promote and remain democratically stable, it is worth looking [Read more]
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