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Month: September 2025

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Government Put Empty Spoon Na Jaiama Sewafe Mot.

27/09/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Jaiama Sewafe is a mid-sized town in Kono District, that is located on the foot of the Nimi Hills and straddled by River Sewa, one of the longest rivers in [Read more]

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From Sale to Salvation: Government, VP, Fawaz, and the Future of the Pilgrimage Estate

27/09/2025 By Oumar Farouk Sesay

Last week, the Muslim Ummah raised its voice in anguish over the sale of the Sierra Leone Pilgrimage estate to Hajj Fawaz. Doubt hung heavy. We had grown used to [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: ‘Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again’ Part one – Political Bastardisation.

25/09/2025 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

As the ruling party begins to rip up the scab of our past and force-feed us with its greased hog, there’s no putting lipstick on the provocative pig of bigotry [Read more]

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Fawaz vs. Faith: A Call for Presidential Intervention

23/09/2025 By Oumar Farouk Sesay

In the 1970s and 80s, when performing Hajj was a nightmare for ordinary Sierra Leoneans, a group of visionary Muslim leaders created the Sierra Leone Pilgrimage Movement (SLPM). They gave [Read more]

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The Song of Every Land”: When Landscape Becomes Liturgy

20/09/2025 By Hassan Arouni

I still remember the message that woke me before dawn: “Here’s a song from South Africa.” A YouTube link. I clicked. It was music pulsing with that deep kind of [Read more]

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Why There Are No Presidential Elections in China?

20/09/2025 BY NGUGI MUIGAI

No Chinese citizen wakes up one morning saying, “I’m going to vote for my President.”   WHY? Because the Chinese President is not chosen by the people. He is selected [Read more]

Critique Column

The Cognitive Dissonance of Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy on Human Rights in Democracy.

10/09/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

“Cognitive Dissonance is the psychological discomfort a person feels when holding two or more conflicting beliefs, attitudes, or values, or when their beliefs conflict with their behaviours. It arises when [Read more]

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Are Political Campaigns Becoming Show Business of War Without Bloodshed?

04/09/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Why many people see journalism as the barometer of society and thermometer of public opinion is anybody’s guess. Even though some see elections as advance auction sale of stolen goods, [Read more]

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As The Masks Come Off, Democracy Dies In Darkness.

01/09/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Seen as the best form of governance, the Greeks who have been credited with inventing the idea and concept of democracy recognised the dual nature of it from its inception. [Read more]

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CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation

29/11/2025

This week, Mr. Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, affectionately known to thousands of former pupils simply as SBB, turned 80 years old.   Eighty is a milestone that invites reflection—not only [Read more]

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CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION

25/11/2025

When Minister Julius Daniel Mattia wrote his op-ed on Guinea’s Simandou 2040, he was not just offering congratulations across a friendly border. His words carried the rhythm of an older [Read more]

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THE WOMAN PRESIDENT. NEXT.

25/11/2025

Two important questions women (and men allies), especially those in politics, should and must ask in preparation for Sierra Leone’s 2028 elections are these: 1) If there are no SLPP, [Read more]

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Beyond Inspiration: Mining Governance in Sierra Leone and the Missed Lessons of Simandou 2040

25/11/2025

On 12 November 2025, I read with interest an op-ed reflection shared on WhatsApp by Sierra Leone’s Honourable Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, titled “Mining a [Read more]

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