Things are not like a rosy garden in the East African State of Kenya and with national elections slated for December, it’s difficult to forecast exactly as to what’s next. Adding to the uncertainty is the clanger dropped by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) indicting four top Kenyans in the country’s political arena. The[...]

Oh dear, the politicians are at it again. This time it’s in Fourah bay in the east of Freetown. A very simple bye election to elect a councilor has again degenerated into violence, bloodshed, damage to property, disruption to people’s lives and a general sense of unease across the entire nation. The worrying thing is[...]

Since I got up this morning, Thursday 19th, to write, I have had to work with four candles and one of those poorly manufactured Chinese lamp, wasted dozens of A4 paper, all in an attempt to get the mental pick-up required to do my work in Ernest Koroma’s Sierra Leone. I guessed you’ve worked it[...]

In the 90s, Sierra Leone had a most gruesome and inhuman carnage that completely uprooted the country from an already shaky foundation. Bobby Gboyor’s Novel ‘Clouds of a Ghoulish War’ is a socio-economic and political critique, using the war as its anchor. The novel is strikingly relevant to contemporary Sierra Leone, a nation still struggling[...]

How happy can it be for us in Sierra Leone? Work on Wilkinson Rd will hopefully be completed; so will that on Spur Rd. and the hillside bypass, with many main and feeder roads in other parts of the country, not forgetting the Lungi Airport terminal building. Talking of Lungi, one hopes new staff will[...]

There is so much flurry over the upcoming presidential election in neighbouring Senegal that outsiders are asking; what’s going on besides that? Once considered as stable country, recent events have shown that the country is heading into arm’s way, pitching opponents of current President Abdoulaye Wade into a cul-de-sac. Wade, aged 85, is defiantly making[...]

The intractability of an issue should not be any reason why it should not be addressed. Of course, we all know by now that life is indeed not a bed of roses where all is bliss and splendour. Because no one has monopoly of knowledge, we need to explore everybody’s energy in order to move[...]

I hope you all have recovered from the Christmas blues and that the flu and cold that was spreading all over the place just before Christmas has not been permanent and, that you have all settled down to face the madness of those who think they have better ideas about how to govern Mother Sierra[...]

Professor Wole Soyinka, a prolific writer and a Nobel Laureate once said “students are the barometer by which one measures the trend of times.” Prof Wole Soyinka also added “students are the eyes and the mouth of the people”, adding to their mandate of being tomorrow’s leaders. In the 1930s, the movement “La negritude Politique”,[...]

Are you still surprised that even with a lot of visible signs that quite a lot is happening that we may call development, we still have a large portion of our compatriots that strongly believe that our developmental priorities are yet to be put right? Well I am not surprised because it looks like in[...]