Critique Column

It has been an embarrassment both for our country and the highest offices of the state, yet our vice president Sam-Sumana told Cocorioko Newspaper in an interview that "Since the [Read more]

2012 elections are the final frontier for transcending the assumed limits of our fears and perceptions; our ethnic tendencies; our political prejudices. It is a new horizon awaiting. The message [Read more]

There is some indication that as the November Elections get nearer, some people will go to great lengths to have their say; and in some cases hope to influence the [Read more]

The dust of the funeral rites of the President’s mother is slowly settling down as everything seems to be back on track with the same old politicking and backstabbing. Some [Read more]

The people of Sierra Leone, and especially the president and his family have been hit by the death of Mrs. Alice Koroma, the mother of the President of Sierra Leone. [Read more]

Many great thinkers have held the belief that “a free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society”. It is against this background that a [Read more]

When, on invitation, I agreed to receive postings from Face book friends on the discussion forum titled “Sierra Leone Issues” I did so with the hope that I was going [Read more]

Mr. Joseph Kamara, Commissioner of the Sierra Leonean anti-graft agency, recently made a presentation at the Commonwealth Regional Conference for heads of anti-corruption agencies at the Zambezi Sun Hotel in Livingstone, Zambia.  [Read more]

I will start this article by restating an old adage: “The lip of truth shall be established forever; a lying tongue is but for a moment.”  The politics of ethnicity [Read more]

The recent exposure of the utterly depressing deeds of the APC government has forced international institutions and governments to raise eyebrows at President Koroma’s interpretation of democracy. It has also [Read more]

The term “corruption” has always been synonymous with power. Some believe that corruption is simply about authority plus monopoly minus transparency. Power has been known to attract the corruptible. But [Read more]

Though the official campaign whistle for the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone which is slated on 17th November this year is not yet blown, the scenario at [Read more]

I can still recall the summer noon in the year 1990 when my late father revealed to me a short story about the name Kemaena which had been changed to [Read more]