The truth and dirty politics of the opposition SLPP in Sierra Leone
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 hold both presidential and parliamentary elections slated for November 12 this year. In what appears to be a vain bid to re-covet State House, [...]
What a New Year’s gift of bloodbath for Sierra Leoneans?
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 masterminded by Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) chairman in the Fourah Bay Community, Aziz Carew. Cross sections of civil society organizations have come under a barrage of [...]
Changing the continuity of racism in canada: An immigrant’s point of view
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 for being the personification of the greatness of Canada by virtue of them being an inter-racial couple. Instead, to the shock of many, [...]
Violence and the 2012 elections in Sierra Leone – The political mantra of Charles Margai
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 political parties” and “Charles Margai and his plan “A” and B” political mantra he delivered during the Sierra Leone People’s Party [...]
Wikileaks, US Foreign Policy and Interference in local politics in Sierra Leone
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, bloodthirsty chorus and media frenzy on how the United States has been handling its international relations with the rest of [...]
Alarming! 876 women die of childbirth: A rejoinder
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 but to dismiss it as yet one of those sensational headlines sated of the media landscape in mother Sierra Leone. However, [...]
A tribute to the late Richie Olu Awoonor-Gordon
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 vile insinuation coming from a rather demented mind. This is partly so because the late man was hale and [...]
China’s Foreign Minister Due in Sierra Leone For Bilateral Talks
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 Saturday, 9 January to Sunday 10 January, 2010 on the invitation of his colleague, the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mrs. [...]