Articles by Othman Sheriff

Armed robbery has become another terrifying development in Sierra Leone over the years.  Still staggering to extract itself from the ash and debris of decade long civil war, the country [Read more]

President Koroma has finally announced a date for presidential and legislative elections. But many people, including constitutional lawyers, are frowning at it on the grounds that he was sworn in [Read more]

While glancing through my timeline this morning, my eyes ran into a very attention-grabbing piece written by someone I hold in high esteem, Dr. Julius Spencer. The piece was commented [Read more]

Postcolonial Sierra Leone has experienced endless unenviable history ranging from dictatorship rule,  brutal civil war, military putsches to a staggering democratic system that is riddled by graft, tribal, regional and [Read more]

When the wrong head plunges into the right hallucinations every story becomes reality. Ironically, stories can only sound real to “intelligent” readers when they entail some degrees of truth.  The [Read more]

I’m a Muslim to the bone and can read Quran without a hiccup but I find it disgusting and unimaginable, the way and manner poor African women are being treated [Read more]

I arrived back in Berlin 2 hours ago after a very short but happy trip to the historic city of Rome, Italy.  Italy is the only major country within the [Read more]

Following our previous publications in which we posed several questions to the leadership aspirants of SLPP Germany Chapter, the current executive led by cardiologist Dr. Musa Ben Sannoh has so [Read more]

The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is active and productive in many countries across the western world except in Germany. Even when the party was in power for more than [Read more]

As I already stated in my yesterday’s rejoinder to the tribally motivated “verification committee” led by no other a person but Edward Soloku who is a well-known pro-Paopa top gun [Read more]

When late Nelson Mandel conquered the apartheid era in South Africa,  he told his  black folks  who were desperate to pay the white folks in their own coins: “heroism is [Read more]

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]

Wonders shall never end… Here we are again… the country is perpetually placed under state of emergency even though the Ebola outbreak has been contained by foreign medics. Though schools [Read more]