Articles by Abdulai Mansaray

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]

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]

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]

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]

The African continent is hugging the headlines today, but relatively for the wrong reasons. With the dust seemingly settling and the waves apparently ebbing away, the dearth of emotions that [Read more]

In times like these, our country has become embroiled in so much legal and constitutional wrangling, that some of us have actually given up in trying to makes sense of [Read more]

 “Ten American aid workers who may have been exposed to Ebola are being brought back to the US from Sierra Leone. On Friday (13/03/15), it was announced that a US [Read more]