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About Abdulai Bayraytay

Author, Abdulai Bayraytay, is a political scientist who earned his master’s degree in political science from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, and his Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in political science from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.

Tribute to International Workers’ Day and addressing workplace bullyin...

May 2, 2013 1 comment

Every year, May 1st every year International Workers’ Day (also known as May Day) is being celebrated in recognition of workers’ solidarity as they grapple with one form of work-place like low ...

Democracy is about the will of the people

December 5, 2012 no comments

The politics of post-colonial Africa has usually been replete with the nauseating phenomenon of the winner-take-all syndrome which, according to some scholars, has been attributed to the political in...

A post-mortem analysis of the Presidential debate that never was…

November 5, 2012 no comments

As the West African state of Sierra Leone is poised to hold the much anticipated Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Council elections slated for November 17 this year, the country has attracted mu...

One-time brutal dictator - Julius Maada Bio

Remembering a nasty ordeal – The challenges journalists face acr...

October 12, 2012 3 comments

October 13 of every year since 1993 has come to symbolize the challenges journalists and press practitioners face across the world, but most notoriously under quasi-democracies and or military junta-...

The SLPP in cheap politics of treachery

May 24, 2012 no comments

Since the main opposition party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) abysmally lost control of State House following the resounding victory of incumbent President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma in the 2007...

Julius Maada Bio - Allegations of Human Rights Abuse

The truth and dirty politics of the opposition SLPP in Sierra Leone

February 14, 2012 2 comments

Since last year, Sierra Leone’s grand old party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has been having political running battles with the ruling All Congress Party (APC) as the country readies to ho...

Julius Maada Bio - No alternative to govern

What a New Year’s gift of bloodbath for Sierra Leoneans?

January 21, 2012 3 comments

A political theory is playing out in Sierra Leone over the entrenched bloodbath following the vicious stabbings of political opponents of the ruling All People’s Congress Party (APC) allegedly master...

Changing the continuity of racism in canada: An immigrant’s point of v...

December 30, 2011 no comments

Nothing more could have been well appreciated as a Christmas present by the Oyinsan family living in the outskirts of Toronto in New Market, if only someone would have called and congratulated them f...

Violence and the 2012 elections in Sierra Leone – The political ...

December 30, 2011 7 comments

During the past couple of weeks, there has been a flurry of newspaper reports with headlines ranging from “market women beat soldier”, “armed robber killed by police at Lumley” to “SLP lifts ban on p...

Ambassador June Carter-Perry and SLPP Chairman John Oponjo Benjamin.

Wikileaks, US Foreign Policy and Interference in local politics in Sie...

September 13, 2011 3 comments

For the past couple of months, there has been a huge dudgeon sparked by Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks dump of a quarter-million of US State Department cables that has given rise to heated debates,...

Improved medical facilities in Sierra Leone

Alarming! 876 women die of childbirth: A rejoinder

August 29, 2011 no comments

When I stumbled on the headline “Alarming! 876 women die of childbirth” in the online edition of the Awoko newspaper, I initially defied to spend not even a minute reading the content of the article ...

A tribute to the late Richie Olu Awoonor-Gordon

April 8, 2011 no comments

If anyone would have told me few months back that Richie Olu Awoonor-Gordon, commonly known as Richie Gordon, would have given up the ghost last week, I would not have hesitated to dismiss such as a ...

China’s Foreign Minister Due in Sierra Leone For Bilateral Talks...

January 7, 2010 no comments

The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China His Excellency Yang Jiechi will pay a twenty-four hour official working visit to the Republic of Sierra Leone from Saturda...