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Maada Bio Say It: NOT IN MY NAME
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]
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A Society That Places Loyalty Over Objectivity Will Ultimately Be Swallowed Up By The Quicksand Of Mediocrity
I’m taking a break from my letter to the President, as a result of a few responses and comments on the two I have written. I promise to continue later. [Read more]
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JOB Backs Charles Margain in Protest Against President Koroma’s State of Emergency
President Koroma’s announcement of the lifting of some of the restrictions of the Ebola emergency regulations that were promulgated by the country’s parliament at the height of the Ebola crisis [Read more]
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Be Grateful To Journalist Dr. David Tam Bayor For His Commitment, Steadfastness And Dedication.
Sierra Leoneans both home and in Diasporas must be thankful to Monologue Radio Program and its leadership. Dr. David Tam Bayor’s true commitment to this weekend radio talk show called [Read more]
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APC $12 Million Busgate: Citizens Need Answers to the Many Questions
Just as we seem to be battling with the NUDEGATE then appeared another new APC scandal: the $12 million BUSGATE. Unfortunately, it seems our APC friends have been GRIPPED by [Read more]
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The Constitutional Crisis Over The Vice-presidency Drags On While An Unwelcome Spotlight Falls On The President’s Affairs.
A full explanation of why Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana was summarily removed from office in March has just emerged. President Ernest Bai Koroma feared he was building support for a bid [Read more]
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‘Blind Spots’ in Aid Programming, Combined With National Government Failures, Created a Weak Health System Unable to Respond to The Ebola Shock.
The Ebola outbreak not only exposed major weaknesses in Sierra Leone’s health system but revealed ‘blind spots’ in over ten years’ of international aid programming to the West African nation, [Read more]
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Protecting The Vote: An Advice on How To Prevent the Incumbent Party From Fraudulently Claiming Victory.
Protecting The Vote: African Politics. Is Africa rising? Are the opposition parties in Sierra Leone prepared for the election soon to come? An advice on what they can do to [Read more]
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Where Destruction is the Motive, Unity is Dangerous
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]
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Is Bondo for white women now? Caitlyn Jenner’s “ Initiation” Into Western Womanhood.
A couple of weeks or so ago Reverend Kabs Kanu’s Cocorioko published a cover picture of some random, recycled internet image of a presumably African woman, her arms flailing and [Read more]
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Dr Bernadette Lahai’s Victory and Dr. Samura’s Failure, a Critique Opinion
When late Nelson Mandel conquered the apartheid era in South Africa, he told his black folks who were desperate to pay the white folks in their own coins: “heroism is [Read more]
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The Blessed Curse.
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]
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Sorious Samura Documentary Wins at Mohamed Amin Media Awards
Al Jazeera’s Liberia: Living With Ebola was named Best Documentary at the inaugural Mohamed Amin Media Awards (MAMA) in Nairobi, Kenya last week. Launched by Africa24 Media and Mo Sound, [Read more]
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RANDOM MUSING: Sia Koroma: A Willing Tool In Political Infamy?
It was William James who wrote that “we are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. Every smallest stoke of virtue or vice, leaves its ever-so-little-scar….” [Read more]
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Broken Dreams of War
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]