Winston Ojukutu-Macauley – Critique Echo Newspaper

Talking About the Mayorship of Freetown

19/02/2012 Winston Ojukutu-Macauley

Every day in recent weeks, I have found myself confronted with the question of who should be the next Mayor of Freetown. In many of the discussions that follows the [Read more]

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly…

03/02/2012 Winston Ojukutu-Macauley

So here we are at the weekly letter, and very glad I am too; but Heavens- how the days run so slow, don’t they? When I was in London I [Read more]

President Koroma Replaces a Professor with Energetic Youth

25/01/2012 Winston Ojukutu-Macauley

President Koroma’s “youth empowerment strategy” and “agenda for change” seemed to also include replacement of lazy professors with energetic youths. The recent demonstration is the removal of though highly qualified but less resourceful Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Prof. Ogunlade Davidson [Read more]

Critique Column

Democracy Is Dead: Funeral Arrangements Will Be Announced Later.

14/07/2026

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which”. This excerpt [Read more]

The Curtain Falls for Minkailu Mansaray, But the Spirit Endures

14/07/2026

Some deaths announce themselves not merely as the passing of a person, but as the falling of a curtain on an era. The death of Hon. Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray feels [Read more]

Critique Column

MY WRONG IS BETTER THAN YOURS: Breaking the Politics of Moral Equivalence in Sierra Leone

14/07/2026

The APC–SLPP rivalry has become more than a contest for political power. Over time, it has hardened into a national habit of thought—a lens through which many citizens interpret public [Read more]

Critique Column

Reassessing the “Lost Opportunity” Argument — A More Realistic Valuation of the 1980 OAU Summit Expenditure

14/07/2026

One of the strongest arguments made in comparing the 1980 OAU Summit with the 2026 ECOWAS Summit is the claim that Sierra Leone sacrificed a historic economic opportunity by spending [Read more]