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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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RANDOM MUSING: From darkness into darkness

27/10/2023 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. We’re truly moving to an era where a lot of Political-Fiction, will become Political-Fact in the not-too-distant future which would transgress laws, precipitating the [Read more]

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Make No Mistake, Our Landscape Has Not Changed, Simply a Forlorn Hope.

18/09/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

It is slightly difficult to disentangle the signal from the cacophony on the socio-economic hardship and the guerrilla warfare of our politics. However, the predatory form of politics which stimulates [Read more]

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Random Musing: The wisdom of yesterday will not suffice for existence today

06/08/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

No matter how much slant is put on it, in politics and governance, perception matters. Ordinarily, reality should drive perception. But most times, perception leads, and muddies the reality. From indications, it [Read more]

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Random Musing: Dancing on Ice

04/07/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

It was and is not our colonial masters that set us against each other. It is not just the political class that has disrobed us of the courage and the [Read more]

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Random Musing: Let He That Thinks He stands Take Heed.

23/04/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

President Bio’s legendry determination to mount the seat of Sierra Leone’s leadership is well known and the performance of his administration and his utterances since assuming power, answer a question [Read more]

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The Political Class Which Kidnapped Our Tomorrow For A Ransom Now Wants To Buy Our Today As Well.

07/08/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Going by the torment of the past decade, the reality is that the political class sees ours and the nation’s future as a game on the field, of which they [Read more]

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No Return to Our Abominable Filth Please.

16/06/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Some might regard most of what you read all over cyberspace as senseless verbal gymnastics but our leaders tend to fuel the hunger of baying dogs, especially those deeply steeped [Read more]

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Hope Rekindled: Let’s Keep Away From A Fantasy Of Idealistic Perversion.

29/05/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Nourishing and tilling the flower beds you can, picking the best scented rose is a different ball-game. Seriously. Any 2-bob gardener can tell you that. So, Can we as a [Read more]

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Beyond The Competing Narratives of our Narcissistic Politicians

07/05/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

If you stay too long in the dark, you begin to see clearly. No matter the effort from those in power, if there is to be a change in Sierra [Read more]

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The Naked Dance In The Market Square.

25/03/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Dark.  Scary. The tragedy of a nation and the demise of integrity. That is what is playing out as we bring to conclusion the 2018 electoral process. Let’s be frank, [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Blinking In The Dark At The Creaking Of a Rusty Gate

28/02/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Sierra Leone’s saving grace is that God, who is cooking our communal soup, has not left the kitchen. Believe me, it does not matter who emerges as president in next [Read more]

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Tomorrow starts today.

02/01/2018 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

I was initially sceptical about wishing you a happy new year, but then within a fleeting moment it occurred to me that with elections just a little over two months [Read more]

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And The Beat Goes On…..

18/11/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Amidst the confetti of eulogies and the blizzards of rhetoric, if we turn off the lights and refuse to dance to the music of our politicians, we might just see [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Stench of insincerity

02/11/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

You know something? As far as I am concerned, unless we review our entire societal ethos and ensure equity and operationally balanced values that will nullify the desire for power [Read more]

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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]

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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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How Did Sierra Leone Become So Culturally Bankrupt ?

07/10/2025

Ishmael Dyfan, aka Petit Mariano, and the great Brima Mazolla Kamara became Sierra Leone’s first professional footballers when they joined Africa Sport D’Abijan of Ivory Coast. Soon after, East End [Read more]

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