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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rejection of the notion that “all’s fair in love and war” was put in me during my upbringing and reinforced by schooling, military training and the countless moments of horror in front of the television, listening to the radios or […]
The books, lectures and experiences have informed me of leadership that inspired teams, organisations, communities and countries to up their games. I have learnt of, seen, felt and even suffered failures of leadership. As the people of Sierra Leone look […]
It is six weeks to the opportunity to change a rather challenging narrative… A woman goes to have a baby knowing her country of residence makes it hugely unlikely she will see or hold that baby. She is a citizen […]
Much has been said recently about who we are, where we come from and even who is seen as really belonging. In the mix were insults, rejections, anger and confusion as emotions competed for space with rationale. What the USA […]
Odd, inconsistent, contradictory and unconstructive fixations the origins and citizenships of aspirants are creeping into the Sierra Leone election campaigns with noises on who was born here, lived there or married elsewhere becoming a tactic to enable suspect agendas. Some […]