Articles by Othman Sheriff

About Othman Sheriff

Born and raised in Kenema district, eastern Sierra Leone, Othman Sheriff began practicing journalism during his school days as a youthhood hobby. With a bachelor degree in mass-media and communication, and Master’s degree in development and peacebuilding, Sheriff is the Editor in Chief and CEO of Critique Echo Newspaper. While tirelessly using journalism as a tool to place his country’s socioeconomic and political landscape under a magnifying glass, Sheriff is deeply involved in community development projects. Over the years, Sheriff has formulated and implemented billions of Leones worth of development projects with funds from Europe and USA. He is chiefly focused on community infrastructural development and economic resuscitation projects, fostering interethnic, interreligious and sociocultural cohesion among the young population in Kenema district. He is a member of many international peacebuilding initiatives including the United Religious Initiative (URI), International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP), Intercultural Leaders Network and Youth Solidary Fund program of the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC)

The First Black Saudi Imam Heads for Sierra Leone: a Rejoinder

04/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

Dr. Ahmad Tamim Nassar, a history professor specialized in Egyptology answered “King Pharaoh!” with a tentative smile on the lips, when I asked him who was the first black decision [Read more]

Germany Displays Arabian Artefacts in Museum

29/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

It is a premiere for Germany. Never before have artefacts from Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba in Mecca, been on display in the country. A new exhibit in Berlin’s famous Pergamum Museum traces history on the Arabian peninsula from the birth of civilization to the 20th century. [Read more]

Let the Sierra Leone Police Respect the Boolean Theory

19/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

The police report about the alleged cocaine container that transited at the sea port in Freetown has left the general public with more questions than answers. It’s no act of patriotism to feed the general public with inconceivable theories forgetting to realize the fact some of them are more clever than you. [Read more]

Stop Combining Politics and Religion in Sierra Leone

12/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

If you want to maintain the credit and honour lavished upon you by the Critique, you shouldn’t follow the footstep of your predecessors, Critique Echo warned Dr. Kadie Sesay [Read more]

Critique Column

SIERRA LEONE: Cocaine Cartels and the Rise of State Capture

20/02/2025

Sierra Leone has come under renewed scrutiny as a key transit hub for international drug trafficking. A damning report by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and [Read more]

Critique Column

Sierra Leoneans Will Not Forgive or Forget Anyone Who Makes Their Country a Drug Den

20/02/2025

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]

Africa

Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders.

15/02/2025

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]

Sierra Leone: The Rise, Ruin, and Reckoning of a Nation

01/02/2025

Ask Anyone from my generation who once read The Tablet newspaper, followed the writings of Nkrumah, Amie Cesaire, Senghor, Samir Amin, Fannon, Olu Gordon, and Paul Kamra, or watched the [Read more]