Last Wednesday, 6 March 2013, the Chief Executive of Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), resigned from the organisation, after five years of service – driving the former British prime [Read more]
Some twenty odd years ago, when I was just finishing university in the US, I chose to travel to my country of heritage – Sierra Leone – to undergo female [Read more]
Simio Kabu has been riding the streets of Freetown for five years. It is his job to taxi customers around the city's traffic-choked roads. He says that he earns 80,000 [Read more]
I always thought that every medical practitioner is humanitarian conscious, but I was wrong. I recently learnt that there are many hot spots in the world where humanitarian calls are [Read more]
It is a sad truth of journalism that journalists are often liked best when they are at the worst, and disliked most when they are at the best. Or, at [Read more]
In fulfilment of my promise to maintain Beyond Borders (BB) following requests from some readers to have a different perspective on issues, especially as we approach the November 17 presidential [Read more]
I have been approached almost daily to express my views on the Government, the Opposition or the issue of the moment in Sierra Leone. Generally, I have resisted. As well [Read more]
For years now, Sierra Leone has been like a boxer coming round after a sniff of smelling salt, with half-remembered taste, smell and sound of the day before yesterday. [Read more]
Just a week ago, I read and heard two of the most shocking cases of this cholera outbreak. The first case was that of a grieving mother, Salimatu Turay who [Read more]
Amnesty International says it has received “credible reports” that Gambia executed nine death row prisoners, including a woman on Thursday. Jammeh was reported to have vowed to kill all 47 [Read more]
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their respective participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It [Read more]
The most expensive words in the lives of the average Germans are: “I love you”, “please help me”, and “I’m sorry”, and they expect them to reciprocate in all their [Read more]
When did you last visit Koidu town? To say Koidu town is in a mess is an understatement and it has nothing to do with the ruling APC government. Just [Read more]
This is part II of this piece. Please read part I, if you haven’t done so already, to enable you grasp the gist. The Tejan Kabbah’s SLPP regime The Tejan [Read more]
Whenever I hear the cacophonous sounds of the bells of enmity, abhorrence and grudges being rang under the guise of patriotism against or for some Sierra Leonean political groupings, by [Read more]
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