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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]

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]

Africa

Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders.

15/02/2025 Abdulai Mansaray

Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre [Read more]

Africa

Does Senegal Give Hope to Third Parties In Africa?

08/04/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

Senegal has just voted for Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 44 as one of Africa’s youngest Presidents. This is coming at a time when countries like America are grappling with the choice [Read more]

Africa

Should The Whole of The African Continent Support the Coups in The Sahel?

17/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

As controversial as the question in the title might sound, Africa and especially its generations need to wrap their heads round this question. In the face of democracy as a [Read more]

Africa

Are The Coups in West Africa A Third World Movement to Decolonise the African mind?

12/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

It might have started long before Patrice Lumumba of the then Congo was betrayed and killed by the Belgians. Since then, the political history of Africa is known as the [Read more]

Africa

When Democracy Fights Democracy, A Country Disappears from The People’s Consciousness.

07/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

There seems to be a new political wind blowing across the Sahel, and the congealed ideologies within this wind of change is generally felt across the African continent. If the [Read more]

Africa

Consultant (s) Needed for Ex-post Evaluation of BMZ Co-funded Projects Implemented by YAD and Fambul Tik in Sierra Leone

16/05/2022 CEN

Fambul Tik e.V. is requesting applications from suitably qualified consultant (s) to conduct a comprehensive ex-post evaluation on its projects in Sierra Leone.  BACKGROUND Since the civil war ended in [Read more]

Africa

PCR Covid Test No Longer Required For People Travelling From Sierra Leone To UK

11/01/2022 CEN

Following last week’s announcement by the UK government that Covid PCR tests are no longer required for people coming into the country, there are reports of passengers travelling from Freetown [Read more]

Africa

Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo attends Du Bois Museum Complex Agreement Signing in New York

22/09/2021 Dennis Kabatto

Dozens of Pan Africanists, dignitaries, African Diaspora, New Yorkers and well-wishers convened at The Pierre Taj Hotel in New York City Monday for the W.E.B. Du BOIS Museum Complex Project [Read more]

Africa

A Nation Is Only Free in The Land of The Brave

08/09/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

Since the military uprising, sorry the coup in neighbouring Guinea, Sierra Leoneans have inundated social media with their views, feelings and interpretations of the whole saga, some even with wishful [Read more]

Africa

Is Dissent an Act of Faith in Democracy?

07/09/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

On August 19, 2020, I questioned whether the coup in Mali was a sign, “Is Africa returning to its bad old ways? (Sierra Leone Telegraph. Com, Binkongo.com). It took one [Read more]

Africa

New Drive To Tackle “Unacceptable Scale” Of Violence Against Children In Africa

22/07/2021 CEN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Addis Ababa, July 22 – A new drive to curb unacceptable levels of violence against children in Africa was launched today after disturbing fresh research indicating that African [Read more]

Africa

Why Do Black Heroes Die So Soon?

23/06/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

Today marks three months since John Pombe Joseph Magufuli passed away, but like many before him, his death has not passed without the proverbial conspiracy theories. We all know how [Read more]

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YAD Concludes Annual TVET Graduation in Grand Style

26/01/2026

On January 23rd and 24th, 2024, YAD added another chapter to its ongoing youth and women’s empowerment initiatives by hosting its annual TVET graduation in a spectacular fashion. Each year, [Read more]

Critique Column

The Silence of the Lambs: Why Sierra – Leone’s Legal Guardians Must Not Stand Aside: Comparative Lessons and Constitutional Theory for a Critical Moment

25/01/2026

n Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals themselves but the silence that has settled around them. [Read more]

Critique Column

Democracy After Empire: George M. Carew’s Case for Deliberation in Postcolonial Africa

25/01/2026

A familiar strain of Western political theory has long portrayed African states as inherently incapable of self-government—an outlook that endured both the rhetoric of colonial “civilizing missions” and the administrative [Read more]

Critique Column

BARMAGEDDON- (An E-Bar Exclusive) 004: A Constitution Rewritten for Order, Not for Liberty

25/01/2026

There is a peculiar habit in young democracies. They rewrite their constitutions not when liberty is openly threatened, but when authority feels insufficiently secure. The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) [Read more]

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