By Umaru Fofana, SLAJ, BBC, Freetown 2012 is here. The elections are near. Politicians have started greeting people by their name. Absentee and no-do-gooder parliamentarians, council chairmen and councillors have [Read more]
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, CEN Commentator, USA Sierra Leone is a perfect example of how the African politician should do away with the absurd juju-marabou spiritualism – if Africa is to [Read more]
RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Let’s end the game of wits. We all know that politicians when whipped into mob frenzy can take banality to frightening [Read more]
RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Blood is not simply red – it stains. Covenants without swords are but mere words. When the hunter is afraid of his gun, [Read more]
By John Momoh If one considers the role played by Ex-brigadier Julius Maada Bio in bringing Ex-President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Regime to power in 1996, [Read more]
By Sorie Fofana The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report of 2004 discovered that “endemic corruption was a central factor that produced the dire conditions that made civil war inevitable. Sierra [Read more]
RANDOM MUSING, By Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Sir, The Vice President, Alhaji Sam Sumana Permit my impudence but there is an irony in the fact that the administration [Read more]
By Abdulai Mansaray Abdulai Mansaray, Author The last time I checked, the national police force of the Republic of Sierra Leone was charged with the responsibility for law enforcement [Read more]
Commented By Franklin Kekura Fode-Kallay, USA. Sorious Samura Sir, Please grant me space in your widely read magazine to express my views on this hot issue. Thanks. HOW SERIOUS IS [Read more]
By Abdulai Mansaray. With the recently concluded report on the “Bo Political Mishap “published, the spate of violence that is rearing its ugly head in local communities does not augur [Read more]
RANDOM MUSING, By Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk “The IMC notes that since the broadcast of that programme, it has generated heated discussions on (sic) the media. The IMC [Read more]
Random musing, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon In the midst of the verifiable achievements and the pillaging and abuse of the past years, there is a compelling need, like Sorious Samura [Read more]
By Abdulai Mansaray, UK The recent documentary on Sierra Leone’s timber industry aired on Al-Jazeera has been met with controversy, accusations, counter-accusations and full blown smear campaigns. While some have hailed [Read more]
By Abdulai Mansaray, CEN Political Commentator, UK Abdulai Mansaray, Author “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” (Marcus Garvey). [Read more]
Either in Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Egypt or Tunisia, the African nation-state, from its birth, has been in some sort of undeviating inanimate democratic revolution. The reason is that the African [Read more]
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