I am positive that the government and the Anti Corruption Commission, with an eye to audience-applause, would expect us to give a standing ovation to the theatrics of its fight [Read more]
One of my earliest memories as a child was looking forward to Fridays. No, It was not about Friday prayers but about the number of times I was invited to [Read more]
"..I said "Ernest is not my brother: I am Mende-Sherbro; Ernest is Limba-Temne. I am Margai; Ernest is Koroma," We are not brothers and the lawlessness, I think, is right [Read more]
The City of Freetown woke up to the Operation WID a few months ago, much to the joy of many commuters. According to SLRTA, in conjunction with the Freetown City [Read more]
When a lawbreaker is mislabeled as lawmaker, even the unimaginable things will become reality. With Habib Munda’s emergence as a parliamentarian representing constituency 017, I could now see that there [Read more]
With a toothless official opposition, Sierra Leone seems to be slowly slipping back into a one-party state. President Koroma hasn't locked up his critics, but he is adept at undermining [Read more]
Last Wednesday, 6 March 2013, the Chief Executive of Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), resigned from the organisation, after five years of service – driving the former British prime [Read more]
Some twenty odd years ago, when I was just finishing university in the US, I chose to travel to my country of heritage – Sierra Leone – to undergo female [Read more]
Simio Kabu has been riding the streets of Freetown for five years. It is his job to taxi customers around the city's traffic-choked roads. He says that he earns 80,000 [Read more]
I always thought that every medical practitioner is humanitarian conscious, but I was wrong. I recently learnt that there are many hot spots in the world where humanitarian calls are [Read more]
It is a sad truth of journalism that journalists are often liked best when they are at the worst, and disliked most when they are at the best. Or, at [Read more]
In fulfilment of my promise to maintain Beyond Borders (BB) following requests from some readers to have a different perspective on issues, especially as we approach the November 17 presidential [Read more]
I have been approached almost daily to express my views on the Government, the Opposition or the issue of the moment in Sierra Leone. Generally, I have resisted. As well [Read more]
For years now, Sierra Leone has been like a boxer coming round after a sniff of smelling salt, with half-remembered taste, smell and sound of the day before yesterday. [Read more]
Just a week ago, I read and heard two of the most shocking cases of this cholera outbreak. The first case was that of a grieving mother, Salimatu Turay who [Read more]
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