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Has The SLPP Thrown Down The Gauntlet Of Unity To The Opposition APC Party?

08/08/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

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]

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The Oppressor Never Gives Freedom Voluntarily, The Oppressed Must Demand It.

30/06/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

“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]

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Farewell to a Trailblazer – Dr Kadi Sesay (1949–2025)

16/06/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

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]

Critique Column

In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins

10/06/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

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]

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With Organised Hypocrisy, People’s Indifferences & Impunity Are the Best Breeding Grounds for Corruption to Grow.

31/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

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]

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An Idiot’s Guide to Winning an Election.

28/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

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]

Critique Column

The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting.

27/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

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]

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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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Did Jaiama Sewafe Get an Early “Salmafo” from The SLPP Bio Government?

01/03/2026

It is early days into the Holy Ramadan Month, during which Muslims all around the world are required to fast from dawn to dusk, throughout the month. As one of [Read more]

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The Paradox of Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy for Africa.

01/03/2026

When Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as shithole nations during a meeting on the 12 January 2018, the whole of Africa’s 1.55 billion people was [Read more]

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YAD Concludes Annual TVET Graduation in Grand Style

26/01/2026

On January 23rd and 24th, 2024, YAD added another chapter to its ongoing youth and women’s empowerment initiatives by hosting its annual TVET graduation in a spectacular fashion. Each year, [Read more]

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The Silence of the Lambs: Why Sierra – Leone’s Legal Guardians Must Not Stand Aside: Comparative Lessons and Constitutional Theory for a Critical Moment

25/01/2026

n Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals themselves but the silence that has settled around them. [Read more]

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