Posts filed under: Africa

Oh Yahya Jammeh

You were so close to influencing in your favour the narrative on your reign, but let the megalomania in you shape your exit and what will for many become the abiding memory. All the noise about serving the Gambian people […]

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A place for the time

I reviewed 2015 using sporting analogies without thinking I would so soon afterward go down the same route or use the same method. I have never followed football with anything like the passion of my brothers and many of my […]

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My 2015… The Enduring Struggle

My love of sport never goes beyond enjoying the entertainment of contests and confirmation of who was best on the day. So, it is interesting that I find proceedings at the Athletics World Championships of 2015 and other sports related […]

Untraditionally Speaking

Traditions, as good and amusing and fascinating as they can be, also carry the risk of providing resistance, sometimes illogical, in the face of much needed change. I actually love the way traditions define one group of people from the […]

Refusing to learn – A very Sierra Leonean problem

After all the denial, politicking, slurs about victims, ‘ostricism’, ‘crying wolf’ suggestions, criticism of other governments, conspiracy theories, suffering, misery, and deaths that could have been prevented, we finally have acceptance of sorts; there is a problem in Sierra Leone […]

It’s All About Substance…

The wisdom of our people suggests – “if a mad man steals your clothes and you chase him while naked, bystanders are left unsure of who the mad person is”. For this reason and that alone, I refuse to get […]

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Our Brothers’ Keepers?

Will the African Union take time out this Africa Day to reflect on its last twelve months? Will there be reference to the aspirations which on May 25th 1963 gave birth to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)? Look at […]

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A need for lions…

It is proud people that you find on any tour of Africa. The outsider might suspect they are embarrassed by their lot. Not so! Go through African villages and you find people with a belief in what they are, and […]

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Independence Day (27 April 2014)

April 27th… to Sierra Leoneans and Togolese – Independence Day; for South Africans -Freedom Day. Twenty years ago today, the queuing started as South Africans in the first elections with universal adult suffrage came out to influence their destiny. Out […]

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Problem… What problem? (17 April 2014 )

Twenty years ago this month we got a stark reminder of man’s capacity and willingness to conduct acts of inhumanity. The United States had half a year earlier been bloodied in Somalia and much of the world was somewhat distracted […]

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