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 […]
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 […]
Remembering General Colin Powell Some experts had mentioned Armageddon and advised it was mission impossible, but our commander insisted “it’s never too late to start saving lives” and asked “who would we be if we didn’t step into this and […]
My chat with the taxi driver from Saisbury train station to a nearby barracks covered the reason for my visit, his father’s service in the Royal Air Force, and global security issues before we discussed and arranged him picking me […]
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 […]
We had just arrived Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. In the background, in full personal protective clothing, some blokes who boarded our flight from Freetown during its stop at Conakry. Obviously determined to stay alive, they wore white hazmat suits, […]
People jumping ship while others seek refuge in false equivalents. See them; scrambling for “get out of jail cards” using the excuse they didn’t know or see what was never far from obvious. Alongside this, the deafening silence of many […]
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, […]
There’s so much to say about my wish for 2020. Anyway, while I ponder how to bore you all with that, here’s a wish for a 2021 that makes its predecessor look like a blip in all our lives. So, […]
The glorious days of taking pride in spelling abilities… hhhhmmmm… Days when “we’re where we were” didn’t confuse, making a fuss about force was understood, and writing it once in one’s diary made sense. When treadmills were for workouts and […]