A line from Bob Marley’s ‘Crazy Baldhead’ – “Here comes the con man coming with his con plan”. Well here goes… The UK had a general election three year early because the Prime Minister wanted to “strengthen my hand”. To […]
A line from Bob Marley’s ‘Crazy Baldhead’ – “Here comes the con man coming with his con plan”. Well here goes… The UK had a general election three year early because the Prime Minister wanted to “strengthen my hand”. To […]
What have we done? Correction… What has she done to us? We didn’t need an election. Mrs May herself told us so on numerous elections. Suddenly, for what seem to be reasons to serve her own purpose, we got one. […]
London, this greatest of cities, received me into the world and I could not be prouder of her. However, drill down into my love of London and you’ll find it isn’t as simple as the “maybe it’s because I am […]
May 25th; probably a day Sierra Leoneans should reflect on the past and take lessons forward. On this day in 1963, Sierra Leone was one of the founding nations of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union […]
Cowards hide behind whatever prevents them taking responsibility for their actions, or helps them avoid facing the people they hurt. They find easy ways into situations and often follow that with even easier ways out. They slip into concert halls […]
A quarter of a century ago today, junior officers of the Sierra Leone Army deserted their posts during the war against the Revolutionary United Front and marched into the capital city with some of their soldiers. Ostensibly, the purpose was […]
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 […]
Just over forty-seven years ago, while sat on a barber’s chair near the Freetown (Sierra Leone) East End Police Station, I saw half a dozen men in red shirts kick to a pulp a bloke dressed in green. So brutal […]
“Blessing and peace be ever thine own…”; “So may we serve thee ever alone…”; “All that we have be ever thine own…” Touching promises from the national anthem of a country whose history persistently fails to reflect the abundance of […]
The simplistic notion that my friend’s friends must be my friends, and their enemies my enemies too, has often been held on to and practised by leaders or aspiring leaders of nations. Problem is, it almost always comes back to […]