As controversial and debatable as it sounds, hate and revenge have become the palm oil with which politics is eaten today. Revenge politics has now become trendy. What makes it [Read more]
“Democracy is not a spectator sport— It is a shared inheritance that must be defended by all.” The term imperial presidency was once an American cautionary tale—an oxymoron meant to [Read more]
To mark the occasion of his own eightieth birthday, the writer, in these two separate articles, first pays homage to the late Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, and then writes a [Read more]
The Sierra Leone People’s Party recently concluded its 14th National Delegates Convention in Freetown. This was preceded by regional elections that did not fare without its own catalogue of controversies. [Read more]
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which”. These [Read more]
Dr Kadi Sesay, feminist, scholar, politician, and pro-democracy advocate, passed away in the United States after a prolonged illness. She was 76. Family sources confirmed her death after a prolonged [Read more]
The fallout from the “bromance” between Trump and Elon Musk was just a matter of time before the final blowout. Recent reports about the implosion between the most powerful man [Read more]
An article titled “SLPP accused of planning to steal 2028 elections by creating new electoral districts in its stronghold and Freetown” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com (May 29-2025) seems to invoke post 2023 general [Read more]
If a week is a long time in politics, think of what five years in opposition feels like. After a 10 year stint in power, the APC Party found itself [Read more]
It is a tragedy that we now live our lives along the bandwidth of politics. What passes for democracy in our country is strictly “Partisan Antagonism”. We replaced our 10 [Read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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