Random Musing is a column dedicated to one of our greatest contributors, Raymond dele Awoonor-Gordon, who discusses mainly issues that are relevant to the sociopolitical and economic development of Sierra Leone.
Let me say this: should the 2018 election be shifted by even a day, the opposition collectively has no iota of right to complain or cry foul. Are they just [Read more]
We are a genetically narcissistic people. Status over substance indeed. And we don’t like any truth that doesn’t reinforce that mindset. Sad. Self-enslavement masquerading as loyalty is our present day [Read more]
I don’t know why but I have a sickening feeling that we are heading for a political crisis ahead of next year’s election. I pray it is not so but [Read more]
It was an uncharacteristically hot afternoon as I boarded the taxi heading for the sleepy remote village of Regent. I wasn’t in too much of a mood to talk after [Read more]
Since my arrival in town, I have realised that by embracing that delusional emotion called expectation, Sierra Leoneans have been able to devise a survival strategy against the steady rumble [Read more]
If truth be told, the trouble with the contraption of a nation called Sierra Leone, is, double standards, ethnically-tainted, tribally-misrepresented viewpoints and dogmatist hollow standpoints. Hypocrisy has become the national [Read more]
Without a shadow of doubt, to get out of the dark place we currently find ourselves, it has become imperative that we get rid of all those who have, or [Read more]
Self-delusion is bad but collective self-delusion is truly the ultimate. It is clear that the government cannot be trusted to exhibit or stand with integrity. But whether the abnormal, modish [Read more]
In the midst of our economic fog and descent into bleak house in slow motion, I had planned to reflect in absolute silence as 2016 gave way to this New [Read more]
You can’t kill the dead, can you? One of our problems is that having outsourced virtually our very existence to other cultures’ understanding frameworks, our society has now funked; as [Read more]
As more and more programmes for the agenda for austerity, oops; sorry, I mean prosperity, are rolled out by the government and my mind wonders to the goings-on in Sierra [Read more]
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m [Read more]
One of the huge elephants in the room of our national existence is the fact that for so long our cockroach (the nation) has been willing to dance in the [Read more]
“Development is a tough process and prosperity does not come on a silver platter.” These two things require effective collaboration and perseverance, not “layback theoretical prescriptions” and “half-hearted political grandstanding” [Read more]
I listened to Palo Conteh, the Minister of Internal Affairs, shooting from the hips in an interview in which he was literarily telling the world, with all the glee of [Read more]
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