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 […]
Brazil 2014… Phew!!! The groups stage is done; now for the first of the do or die stages. The qualified thirty-two has been shaken out to give the last sixteen. From now on, each match will end with some crying […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]