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  • [ 03/02/2019 ] The Betrayal Of Trust Carries A Heavy Taboo. Critique Column
  • [ 10/05/2025 ] Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again. Critique Column
  • [ 30/04/2025 ] True Independence & Freedom Can Only Exist In Doing What Is Right. Critique Column
  • [ 29/04/2025 ] There Will Never be World Peace Until Imperialism is Dead: Hands Off Ibrahim Traore. Africa
  • [ 23/04/2025 ] USA: A great generation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from Within Africa
  • [ 23/04/2025 ] Sierra Leone: Why We Must Answer The Burning Question With Fire Prevention. Critique Column
  • [ 04/04/2025 ] Democracy Dies When Raw Power Rules and Lawlessness is Legalised Africa
  • [ 02/04/2025 ] Kono District: You Can’t Sit By The River And Wash Your Hands with Spittle. Critique Column
  • [ 21/03/2025 ] Brexit: Was this Britain’s Gravest Political National Self-Harm Episode? Critique Column
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Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again.

10/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Donald Trump and Ibrahim Traore are two leaders who could be best described as “Strange Bedfellows”. Despite being similarly different, their common denominators are viewed through different lenses and prisms.  [Read more]

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True Independence & Freedom Can Only Exist In Doing What Is Right.

30/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

It was 64 years last Sunday when Sierra Leone gained its independence from its colonial master, Great Britain. It marked the end of an era and the dawn of another. [Read more]

Africa

There Will Never be World Peace Until Imperialism is Dead: Hands Off Ibrahim Traore.

29/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

There is no better time for African Unity than now. On April 2, General Michael Langley, a United States (US) Marine Corps, who became the sixth Commander of United States [Read more]

Africa

USA: A great generation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from Within

23/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

 Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never [Read more]

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Sierra Leone: Why We Must Answer The Burning Question With Fire Prevention.

23/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Our nation, and especially Freetown have been gripped by a spate of fire incidents recently. The State House, the Military hospital (34) a and mother unit in Makeni hospital have [Read more]

Africa

Democracy Dies When Raw Power Rules and Lawlessness is Legalised

04/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Even before Donald Trump won the elections in November 2024, those familiar with the general feel of African democracy or democracy in Africa could see the parallel and linear similarities [Read more]

Critique Column

Kono District: You Can’t Sit By The River And Wash Your Hands with Spittle.

02/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

When Her Excellency Mrs Fatima Bio spearheaded and joined a strike action by workers from Koidu Limited Mining Company (KLMC), her detractors wasted no time in condemning her action, as [Read more]

Critique Column

Brexit: Was this Britain’s Gravest Political National Self-Harm Episode?

21/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

On Friday, at 11:00 PM, 31 January 2020, Britain officially left the European Union (EU). It was a divorce that was not contested by either party and was settled on [Read more]

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When The Truth Is Found To Be Lies, All The Joy Within You Dies.

20/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Sierra Leoneans woke up to the news that our nation has been grouped together with countries like Russia, Myanmar, South Sudan, Haiti etc. to face sharply restricted access to visa [Read more]

Critique Column

When Leaders Prioritize the Needs of Their People, Nothing is Impossible & Impossible Is Nothing.

15/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

At the end of Africa’s most indelibly tortuous period in history, the colonial period that followed was meticulously tailored to politically, socially, morally, ethically and economically brainwash the continent and [Read more]

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It’s Ramadan: Her Excellency Fatima Bio Gives The Greatest Gift.

03/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

It’s early days into the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan and Mrs Bio has given the greatest gift already. Muslims all over the world are observing this sacred month, the [Read more]

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When Mercy Triumphs over Judgement, It Becomes the Badge of Nobility.

27/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

The case of Hawa Hunt (H.H), a Calgary woman who was  detained since December over past social media criticism of Sierra Leone’s President and First lady, (Calgary Herald, 23rd Feb, [Read more]

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SIERRA LEONE: Cocaine Cartels and the Rise of State Capture

20/02/2025 By Abdoul Mahdieu Savage

Sierra Leone has come under renewed scrutiny as a key transit hub for international drug trafficking. A damning report by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and [Read more]

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Sierra Leoneans Will Not Forgive or Forget Anyone Who Makes Their Country a Drug Den

20/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Sierra Leone has a rich history, from slavery and the slave trade as one of the worst indelible marks on the conscience of mankind, to Sierra Leone emerging as a [Read more]

Africa

Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders.

15/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre [Read more]

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Critique Column

Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again.

10/05/2025

Donald Trump and Ibrahim Traore are two leaders who could be best described as “Strange Bedfellows”. Despite being similarly different, their common denominators are viewed through different lenses and prisms.  [Read more]

Critique Column

True Independence & Freedom Can Only Exist In Doing What Is Right.

30/04/2025

It was 64 years last Sunday when Sierra Leone gained its independence from its colonial master, Great Britain. It marked the end of an era and the dawn of another. [Read more]

Africa

There Will Never be World Peace Until Imperialism is Dead: Hands Off Ibrahim Traore.

29/04/2025

There is no better time for African Unity than now. On April 2, General Michael Langley, a United States (US) Marine Corps, who became the sixth Commander of United States [Read more]

Africa

USA: A great generation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from Within

23/04/2025

 Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never [Read more]

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