Critique Column

Sierra Leone’s modern day history will never be complete without a mention of our passing acquaintance with violence. But this is not to give the impression that we are a [Read more]

Sierra Leone is fast becoming a nation, loaded with paradoxical ironies. These paradoxical ironies do not only manifest themselves in the relationships between our rich mineral resources and abject poverty, [Read more]

Sierra Leone may not be many people’s idea of heaven, but it looks like recent events in the country have drawn attention to such a debate. The situation in our [Read more]

It is an undeniable fact, that Sierra Leone is a rich country; but also paradoxically true that it is one of the poorest countries in the world. If such an [Read more]

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance – Jacob Jusu Saffa is today fighting to keep his job, as pressure mounts on president Julius Maada Bio to transfer him to another ministerial [Read more]

It is an open secret that the relationship between our 2 major political parties, the SLPP and APC is one of attrition.  There is no doubt that these parties would [Read more]

The recent spate of violence on the streets has become a recurrent eyesore to all well meaning Sierra Leoneans. It goes without saying that violence and Sierra Leone are not [Read more]

He made the name, Sierra Leone Police (SLP) force fashionable by simply ascribing to it the buzz-phrase, ‘a force for good’ and it helped to rebuild moral. Before then, some [Read more]

The river died a while back- a victim of the quest for gold. Its muddy waters bereft of any life. For Mamanke and other villages, Pampana River was everything – [Read more]

Social media has been inundated with comments from readers since news broke out that President Bio has paid out millions of dollars to the former President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma [Read more]

There is no doubt that the world we live in today is full of complexities. But more to this, is the irrefutable fact that the world is increasingly becoming divided [Read more]

As I sat in my brother’s apartment in Philadelphia, grudgingly watching the launching of the Ahmad Tejan Foundation for Peace and Democracy, I could not help but recognize the dept [Read more]

The Republic of Sierra Leone recently celebrated its 58th year of independence, but many have been left wondering whether it was worth all the fuss in the first place. And [Read more]