In February 2022, 31 year old ‘Nightbirde’ (Jane Marczewski) lost her five year battle with cancer; eight months after using a reality TV platform to advise: “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy”. […]
In February 2022, 31 year old ‘Nightbirde’ (Jane Marczewski) lost her five year battle with cancer; eight months after using a reality TV platform to advise: “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy”. […]
As it happens, this Father’s Day falls exactly a month after my dad’s 90th birthday. As a family, we looked forward to a day we saw and still see as a huge blessing, because we only need lift our heads […]
Remembering General Colin Powell Some experts had mentioned Armageddon and advised it was mission impossible, but our commander insisted “it’s never too late to start saving lives” and asked “who would we be if we didn’t step into this and […]
My chat with the taxi driver from Saisbury train station to a nearby barracks covered the reason for my visit, his father’s service in the Royal Air Force, and global security issues before we discussed and arranged him picking me […]
We had just arrived Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. In the background, in full personal protective clothing, some blokes who boarded our flight from Freetown during its stop at Conakry. Obviously determined to stay alive, they wore white hazmat suits, […]
I appreciate more the things that flick my switches because my many years include many experiences of their absences. Selflessness, for example, always gets top marks and will continue to do so especially after an unbelievable experience of selfishness on […]
The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) incursion into Sierra Leone’s capital in the early hours of Wednesday 6th January 1999 must be remembered. However, remembering the invasion only for the death and destruction visited on the city feeds the risk of […]
Sierra Leone! An administration leaves, their badness becomes the focus, and no effort goes into learning how their misdeeds were committed and enabled. The vindictive mode that seems to swing energies toward wanting to teach a lesson to the no […]
When citizens and friends of Sierra Leone piled into a room in south London one evening in 2014, the hope was for situation updates by representatives from agencies fighting the Ebola outbreak. It was August and we had for close […]
It was a huge first for Sierra Leone’s politics when six of the men hoping to become the country’s first citizen and the people’s first servant found themselves extracted from the safety and comfort of adoring fans to tell the […]