Posts filed under: Africa

Sierra Leone and… errr… leadership (28 July 2013)

When it is boldly and honestly written, and that day will surely come, there will be the conclusion that the plight of a whole nation was sent on a very different course from what the generosity of nature bestowed; and […]

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It ain’t what you do… it’s the way that you do it (10 June 2013)

Whatever the reason(s) for last week’s forced or induced exits and retirements from the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), well-intentioned scholars of the military ethos will strongly recommend that all desist from politicising the situation or the history […]

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Dreams of Unity (25 May 2012)

Today is Africa Day; marking the 1963 founding in Addis Ababa of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU).  African Unity should be celebrated today.  It can be said that the formalisation of the concept and dream of […]

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Another fine mess… (8 April 2012)

Though the rather incompetent bunch who took over the reigns of power in Mali on 22 March 2012 appear to have negotiated their way into immunity, it would be a huge mistake to assume “situation normal – carry on as […]

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From each… to each… (6 March 2012)

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” (Karl Marx). This simple statement says so much and I raise it here out of concern that what is given to Sierra Leone and how it is given […]

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Survival (1979) – Refuse to be what they want you to be (22 October 2010)

1979!!! There is revolution in Iran and a power struggle in Chad; Michael Bishop coups in Grenada and Tanzanian troops force Idi Amin out of Uganda; Flight Lieutenant J J Rawlings seizes power in Ghana and Saddam Hussein does the […]

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Nesta and Fela – No place for fear (6th November 2010)

Did Robert Nesta Marley ever meet Fela Anikulapo Kuti? Ah well, I can only imagine it would have been quite a conversation. Nesta, exiled from the mother continent by the injustices to ancestors and unrelenting in his dream for all […]

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