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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.

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RANDOM MUSING: If we don’t do change, change will do us.

07/10/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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Our Allegiance is to the Throne and Personnel and Not to The Truth.

02/08/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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When the Wood is so Dense, the Rotten Trees Get Hidden

21/07/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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Yes, The People Are Talking…………

22/05/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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It’s Not About Leadership Anymore, It’s About All of Us.

10/05/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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2018: Who Can We Trust To Change Our Story?

30/04/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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Salvaging Our Democracy 2: Let’s Beware of the ‘Ides’ of Bandwagon

16/04/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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Time To Salvage Our Democracy

10/04/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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RANDOM MUSING: May 2017 Be Rough for Us.

04/01/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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Here we go again – Thunder in Paradise: Episode 1

03/12/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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Part 2 – A Country of Pain and Penury: Let’s Face The Real Issues

16/11/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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A Country of Pain and Penury – Busted Beyond Repairs?

31/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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PART 2: The Criminalisation of Critical Thinking.

24/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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]

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The Criminalisation of Critical Thinking.

24/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

“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]

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World Without End

18/09/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

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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In Just 5 Years: Even with Covid-19 and war in Ukraine… President Bio has done far better than 11 years of Ernest Bai Koroma (Part 2)

05/06/2023

In Part One of this article, I promised to do a Part 2 where I will present more of President Julius Maada Bio’s achievements and show how in just five [Read more]

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When God Created Politicians, Was He Only Joking?

01/06/2023

President Biden once said during a political rally that “we choose truth over facts”, a gaffe that has since haunted his presidency to this day. That was not the first [Read more]

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Guess Who’s Running For President?

29/05/2023

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess fills political graveyards. Nothing is more attractive than loyalty.  Patriotic citizens always show loyalty to their  country, but to the government only [Read more]

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In Just 5 Years

24/05/2023

Even with Covid-19 and war in Ukraine… President Bio has done far better than 11 years of Ernest Bai Koroma. After five years in office, every president in Sierra Leone [Read more]

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