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Month: May 2015

Breaking News

IMC Concludes Seven Complaints against Media Institutions

28/05/2015 CEN

INDEPENDENT MEDIA COMMISSION PRESS STATEMENT IMC Concludes Seven Complaints against Media Institutions The Independent Media Commission has concluded seven more complaints against various Media Houses, and fines imposed on them [Read more]

Critique Column

Sorious Samura Documentary Wins at Mohamed Amin Media Awards

26/05/2015 CEN

Al Jazeera’s Liberia: Living With Ebola was named Best Documentary at the inaugural Mohamed Amin Media Awards (MAMA) in Nairobi, Kenya last week. Launched by Africa24 Media and Mo Sound, [Read more]

Critique Column

RANDOM MUSING: Sia Koroma: A Willing Tool In Political Infamy?

26/05/2015 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

It was William James who wrote that “we are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. Every smallest stoke of virtue or vice, leaves its ever-so-little-scar….” [Read more]

Critique Column

Broken Dreams of War

23/05/2015 Abdulai Mansaray

Wraithlike and blanketed in misery They crouch, wriggle, and crawl in stealth Huddled and bundled in human stench From the assembly of war, into a cauldron of hate.   A [Read more]

Critique Column

The Mediterranean Migration: A Collision of Worlds

23/05/2015 Abdulai Mansaray

The African continent is hugging the headlines today, but relatively for the wrong reasons. With the dust seemingly settling and the waves apparently ebbing away, the dearth of emotions that [Read more]

Latest Post

RANDOM MUSING: The Fault is Not in Our Stars But the Future is in Our Own Hands.

21/05/2015 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

One thing is sure, you can suspend, sack, or even kill a man; but you can never do the same to truth. And the truth right now, is that the [Read more]

Latest Post

President Mediates Fourah Bay College Land Saga

20/05/2015 CEN

President Ernest Bai Koroma Monday 18 May mediated among officials of Fourah Bay College, Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment and leaders of the Fourah Bay College community [Read more]

Latest Post

Ambassador Osman Keh Kamara’s Speech at Children and Armed Conflict in Africa Open Debate

20/05/2015 CEN

Statement by Ambassador Osman Keh Kamara at the   African Union Peace and Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict in Africa – Tuesday 19th May 2015 Mr. Chairperson, My delegation [Read more]

Africa

West African Leaders Reject Democracy

20/05/2015 CEN

A plan to restrict West African presidents to two terms in office has been dropped for the time-being by heads of state. They discussed the proposal to impose limits at [Read more]

Critique Column

Why Africa must cancel Economic Agreements, Political and Military with France?

19/05/2015 Dr. Mehenou Amouzou

 A few months ago we published “Culture and Development in Africa”. The intent of this publication is to analyze the causes of underdevelopment in Africa and how Africa could catch up [Read more]

Africa

As Europeans Request Security Council Mandate About Refugee Crisis, Jammeh Invokes Tit-for-Tat Reactions

16/05/2015 Ralph Ese’Donnu Sawyer, Sierra Leone Information Attaché, The Gambia

              “We will give back to the WEST ‘TIT FOR TAT’ as we are no more fools”- Says:- PRES. Jammeh  Speaking in Basse, in the Upper River Region while on [Read more]

Critique Column

RANDOM MUSING: Let’s Grasp the Nettle and Reform Our Society and Political System.

14/05/2015 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Compatriots, following the chequered history of our nation, especially in the last two decades and after passion has ebbed and reason emerged as explanations for our ugly history, it is [Read more]

Critique Column

Sudden Upsurge of Human Right Abuse in Sierra Leone: Amnesty International Press Release

07/05/2015 CEN

Sierra Leone: Ebola Regulations and Other Laws Must Not Be Used to Curtail Freedom of Expression and Assembly Sierra Leone should stop using emergency regulations brought in to combat Ebola [Read more]

Critique Column

Do You Know That Social Media Is Not Always Good As We Think?

06/05/2015 Othman Sheriff

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in the 2004 during his studies at Harvard University. His primary aim was to facilitate communication among students so that they can share ideas on assignments, [Read more]

Critique Column

RANDOM MUSING: Political ‘Ebola’ Has Left Us Dancing Naked.

04/05/2015 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Despite the constitutional imbroglio and the presence of Ebola in our midst, Sierra Leone on the surface seems extraordinarily calm these days. However, whatever the outcome of the Sam Sumana [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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Democracy After Empire: George M. Carew’s Case for Deliberation in Postcolonial Africa

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A familiar strain of Western political theory has long portrayed African states as inherently incapable of self-government—an outlook that endured both the rhetoric of colonial “civilizing missions” and the administrative [Read more]

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BARMAGEDDON- (An E-Bar Exclusive) 004: A Constitution Rewritten for Order, Not for Liberty

25/01/2026

There is a peculiar habit in young democracies. They rewrite their constitutions not when liberty is openly threatened, but when authority feels insufficiently secure. The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) [Read more]

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