Freetown – Critique Echo Newspaper

Sorry, I was so Wrong: Constituency 017 is Heading for the Rock as Habib Munda Bent on Misrepresenting them in Parliament

06/05/2013 By Othman Sheriff

When a lawbreaker is mislabeled as lawmaker, even the unimaginable things will become reality. With Habib Munda’s emergence as a parliamentarian representing constituency 017, I could now see that there [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]