May 2017 – Critique Echo Newspaper

Yes, The People Are Talking…………

22/05/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

It was an uncharacteristically hot afternoon as I boarded the taxi heading for the sleepy remote village of Regent. I wasn’t in too much of a mood to talk after [Read more]

Armed Robbery is a Terrible Crime And So Is Mob Justice

12/05/2017 Othman Sheriff

Armed robbery has become another terrifying development in Sierra Leone over the years. Still staggering to extract itself from the ash and debris of decade long civil war, the country [Read more]

It’s Not About Leadership Anymore, It’s About All of Us.

10/05/2017 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Since my arrival in town, I have realised that by embracing that delusional emotion called expectation, Sierra Leoneans have been able to devise a survival strategy against the steady rumble [Read more]

Critique Column

How United, is The United Nations?

23/09/2024

The United Nations, with a current membership of 193 was established in 1945. After the United Nations’ Charter was ratified by its main proponents China, France, The United Kingdom, The [Read more]

Critique Column

If The Best Politics Is The Right Action, Charity Must Begin at Home.

17/09/2024

As Sierra Leone’s politics oscillates between the SLPP and APC, it sometimes takes a lot of effort, reflection and in most cases honest humility to come to terms with losing [Read more]

Critique Column

When Complacency Becomes The Enemy of Stability……In Politics.

09/09/2024

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has through its multilateral armed force ECOMOG, a history of successful military interventions to “restore constitutional order within the region. To sports [Read more]

Critique Column

Let The Punishment Fit The Crime, But Don’t Mistake The Law for Justice.

04/09/2024

Although politics in Sierra Leone today is undergoing some form of altered consciousness, thanks to the tribal, regional and base instincts that sometimes strangulate our collective will for national development, [Read more]