Articles by Abdulai Mansaray

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.(Marcus Garvey). It was with a heavy heart that I read about the [Read more]

In a previous article, I implored Rtd. Brigadier Maada Bio to renounce violence in his name. Reports reaching most media outlets, especially those in the diaspora have contended that Maada’s [Read more]

It is with great sadness that I report the death of Honourable Augustine Bockarie Torto, who passed away peacefully on Friday 9th October 2015 at 01:30 hours. This sad event [Read more]

The recent floods in our country have generated so much in the media that one cannot avoid its impact on especially the lives of those directly affected. It goes without [Read more]

The sigh of relief was palpable, and you could hear it reverberating from thousands of miles away. No, it is not the Tsunami. It was the close of the football [Read more]

Sam Hinga Norman, son of the late former Defence Minister and strongman of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), switched a lifetime of allegiance to the All People’s Congress [Read more]

There is an African saying that “a chick that will grow into a cock, is spotted the very day it is hatched”. Progress is impossible without change, and those who [Read more]

 The Confederate flag, a Civil War –era banner was removed entirely from the South Carolina Statehouse, recently. It followed the death of nine black church members at the hands of [Read more]

Donald Trump appeared to be the flavour of the month and had been flying high on the American political Richter scale. But it seems that either the wheels are coming [Read more]

You pierce the clouds with your smiling spear Your flicker of light that brings out the cheer In the moonless night of your dark less daze From the bleary eyed [Read more]

Those of us that survived the late 70s and 80s era will recall being politically breastfed from a single teat of a one party state in Sierra Leone. Those were [Read more]

Abdulai Mansaray, author Hunted, shackled, braced and shipped From the land of the gods and baobab bliss Down in the bowels of my watery coffins To the land of the [Read more]

With tainted love, you veiled your hate With graded bore, you buried your shade Of cupid’s dart, and plied your rake To break my heart, with your fake face.   [Read more]