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Pondering and processing… Power

How can powering the process happen without power in the process? While on the matter, maybe we should process the use of power as part of processing whose power it is and should be. When needing to hold on to […]

Fathers Day 2022

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 […]

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Pondering… Prayers for sanity

So it’s going to be three days of mourning the Freetown fuel tanker explosion dead with prayers as the main effort. And then what? I have no issues with prayer, but what happened to the idea that we must do […]

Pondering… the start of Sierra Leone’s Civil War – 23 March 1991

Mo Farah claiming another Olympic gold at the 2016 Rio games had a BBC commentator pointing out the British athlete shared his birthday with three other gold medal winning Britons – Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Steve Redgrave. They were […]

Pondering… blindness to the blindingly obvious

“People will always need to eat, sleep and s**t, and plans fail if planners forget or ignore that”. Blindingly obvious and drilled into me twenty-five years ago with an unforgettable bluntness. I add to that appreciation of two other certainties […]

Remember and Learning…

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 […]

Here we go again…

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 […]

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Bridging the gap…

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 […]

How much more?

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 […]

Throwing my corn…

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 […]