“Opportunity comes but once”, usually say many writers and speakers. But I don’t think this is true. I think opportunity can come in many forms and shapes, but what we [Read more]
Al Jazeera is nominated for seven One World Media Awards ahead of Thursday’s awards ceremony in London. Six of the seven nominations are for programming set in Africa. Digital Media [Read more]
A couple of weeks or so ago Reverend Kabs Kanu’s Cocorioko published a cover picture of some random, recycled internet image of a presumably African woman, her arms flailing and [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]
The Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has been in a limbo for years since former Vice President Solom Berewa’s emergence as the flagbearer. The situation exacerbated in the year 2011 [Read more]
Since the beginning of this year, the focus of my musing has been the necessity for a change of the socio-political system that has continued to keep Sierra Leone in [Read more]
It is not surprising that the corruption scandal is the only news story on our British screens these days. It is gut wrenching that it is now an open secret [Read more]
When late Nelson Mandel conquered the apartheid era in South Africa, he told his black folks who were desperate to pay the white folks in their own coins: “heroism is [Read more]
Members of the Republic of Sierra Leone House of Parliament led by its Speaker, Hon. Sheku B. B. Dumbuya Wednesday 3rd June formerly presented the Vice President-elect of the Pan African [Read more]
You trampled the earth, as you travelled the world. Traversed the sea of death, but then you came to rest. On a mound of dirt, your ancestors laid to rest [Read more]
No. I’m not talking about the faux grandeur or charade (take your pick) that’s been on display from political thespians suffering from serious foot-in-the-mouth, since we went for each other’s [Read more]
INDEPENDENT MEDIA COMMISSION PRESS STATEMENT IMC Concludes Seven Complaints against Media Institutions The Independent Media Commission has concluded seven more complaints against various Media Houses, and fines imposed on them [Read more]
Al Jazeera’s Liberia: Living With Ebola was named Best Documentary at the inaugural Mohamed Amin Media Awards (MAMA) in Nairobi, Kenya last week. Launched by Africa24 Media and Mo Sound, [Read more]
It was William James who wrote that “we are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. Every smallest stoke of virtue or vice, leaves its ever-so-little-scar….” [Read more]
Wraithlike and blanketed in misery They crouch, wriggle, and crawl in stealth Huddled and bundled in human stench From the assembly of war, into a cauldron of hate. A [Read more]
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