Othame's Reflections… ponderings of 'The Old Man'

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 […]

In a social media post, I mentioned coincidences in my Paris Marathon 2024 bib number that suggested special approval. Well, Paris Marathon 2024 actually happened six months to the day after my father’s death. It also happens that six featured […]

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 […]

Harassment of female professionals and politicians in Sierra Leone seems to have progressed into physical attacks against them. All this not long after activities at the top that were supposed to protect women from attitudes that saw them in ways […]

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 […]

Only two days in and 2021 is showing promise. This morning, I received a Christian equivalent of a fatwa from an “Apostle” after I told him to mask up at a COVID-19 testing centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone. His tirade, […]

“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 […]

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 […]