Sierra Leone has a rich history, from slavery and the slave trade as one of the worst indelible marks on the conscience of mankind, to Sierra Leone emerging as a [Read more]
Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre [Read more]
Rightly or wrongly, President Bio has had and continues to have his fair share of criticisms from the public, the media and his political opponents. Winston Churchill once said that [Read more]
When President Maada Bio took tenancy of State House the first time, he was wearing a military fatigue and holding a gun. Thankfully, he did not shoot a bullet in [Read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
“A government by the people, of the people and for the people” has always been the most celebrated and simplest definition of DEMOCRACY. Conventional wisdom has it that the term [Read more]
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the [Read more]
Senegal has just voted for Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 44 as one of Africa’s youngest Presidents. This is coming at a time when countries like America are grappling with the choice [Read more]
The ancient Greeks are credited with inventing democracy, “Demos kratos” which literally translates to “people power” as a form of government. Some therefore describe democracy as a government of the [Read more]
It is an open secret that Sierra Leone is in the grip of another pandemic, KUSH. With its fair share of horrible outbreaks like the Ebola and Covid 19, many [Read more]
Joseph F Kennedy once said that a “historical monument is not merely a relic of the past, but a symbol of the future”. They are the threads that knit one [Read more]
The June 23 elections in Sierra Leone was one of the most controversial elections of recent time. As the fall out rumbles on six months after the election, it is [Read more]
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