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With Organised Hypocrisy, People’s Indifferences & Impunity Are the Best Breeding Grounds for Corruption to Grow.

31/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

An article titled “SLPP accused of planning to steal 2028 elections by creating new electoral districts in its stronghold and Freetown” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com (May 29-2025) seems to invoke post 2023 general [Read more]

Critique Column

An Idiot’s Guide to Winning an Election.

28/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

If a week is a long time in politics, think of what five years in opposition feels like. After a 10 year stint in power, the APC Party found itself [Read more]

Critique Column

The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting.

27/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

It is a tragedy that we now live our lives along the bandwidth of politics.  What passes for democracy in our country is strictly “Partisan Antagonism”. We replaced our 10 [Read more]

Critique Column

Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again.

10/05/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Donald Trump and Ibrahim Traore are two leaders who could be best described as “Strange Bedfellows”. Despite being similarly different, their common denominators are viewed through different lenses and prisms.  [Read more]

Critique Column

True Independence & Freedom Can Only Exist In Doing What Is Right.

30/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

It was 64 years last Sunday when Sierra Leone gained its independence from its colonial master, Great Britain. It marked the end of an era and the dawn of another. [Read more]

Africa

There Will Never be World Peace Until Imperialism is Dead: Hands Off Ibrahim Traore.

29/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

There is no better time for African Unity than now. On April 2, General Michael Langley, a United States (US) Marine Corps, who became the sixth Commander of United States [Read more]

Africa

USA: A great generation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from Within

23/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

 Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never [Read more]

Critique Column

Sierra Leone: Why We Must Answer The Burning Question With Fire Prevention.

23/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Our nation, and especially Freetown have been gripped by a spate of fire incidents recently. The State House, the Military hospital (34) a and mother unit in Makeni hospital have [Read more]

Africa

Democracy Dies When Raw Power Rules and Lawlessness is Legalised

04/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Even before Donald Trump won the elections in November 2024, those familiar with the general feel of African democracy or democracy in Africa could see the parallel and linear similarities [Read more]

Critique Column

Kono District: You Can’t Sit By The River And Wash Your Hands with Spittle.

02/04/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

When Her Excellency Mrs Fatima Bio spearheaded and joined a strike action by workers from Koidu Limited Mining Company (KLMC), her detractors wasted no time in condemning her action, as [Read more]

Critique Column

Brexit: Was this Britain’s Gravest Political National Self-Harm Episode?

21/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

On Friday, at 11:00 PM, 31 January 2020, Britain officially left the European Union (EU). It was a divorce that was not contested by either party and was settled on [Read more]

Critique Column

When The Truth Is Found To Be Lies, All The Joy Within You Dies.

20/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Sierra Leoneans woke up to the news that our nation has been grouped together with countries like Russia, Myanmar, South Sudan, Haiti etc. to face sharply restricted access to visa [Read more]

Critique Column

When Leaders Prioritize the Needs of Their People, Nothing is Impossible & Impossible Is Nothing.

15/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

At the end of Africa’s most indelibly tortuous period in history, the colonial period that followed was meticulously tailored to politically, socially, morally, ethically and economically brainwash the continent and [Read more]

Critique Column

It’s Ramadan: Her Excellency Fatima Bio Gives The Greatest Gift.

03/03/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

It’s early days into the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan and Mrs Bio has given the greatest gift already. Muslims all over the world are observing this sacred month, the [Read more]

Critique Column

When Mercy Triumphs over Judgement, It Becomes the Badge of Nobility.

27/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

The case of Hawa Hunt (H.H), a Calgary woman who was  detained since December over past social media criticism of Sierra Leone’s President and First lady, (Calgary Herald, 23rd Feb, [Read more]

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The Law Must Call Them Home: The Crisis of Absentee Paramount Chiefs

14/11/2025

For those who care about law, governance, and the moral architecture of Sierra Leone’s society — and who cherish the Paramount Chieftaincy as a cornerstone of our cultural identity — [Read more]

Critique Column

The Executive Is Not a Conveyor Belt — Why Proportional Representation Fails the Test

30/10/2025

The debate over proportional representation (PR) has resurfaced with vigour in Sierra Leone, stirred by comments from the Executive branch and framed by Andrew Keili’s “Ponder My Thoughts.” It is [Read more]

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WE WHO VOWED: SHAME ON US

16/10/2025

There are times when a poem arrives like a visitation — not simply as art, but as revelation. Oumar Farouk Sesay’s We Who Vowed: Shame on Us is such a [Read more]

Critique Column

How Do You Solve a Problem Called Jagaban?

08/10/2025

Mohamed Omodu Kamara (MOK), popularly known as Jagaban may have come to the political arena comparatively recently, but he has been hugging the political headlines already. If this was a [Read more]

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