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 […]
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 […]
I reviewed 2015 using sporting analogies without thinking I would so soon afterward go down the same route or use the same method. I have never followed football with anything like the passion of my brothers and many of my […]
My love of sport never goes beyond enjoying the entertainment of contests and confirmation of who was best on the day. So, it is interesting that I find proceedings at the Athletics World Championships of 2015 and other sports related […]
The change they seek is to their relationships with the system and not to the system itself. Their only purpose is to become the more advantaged – to be able to do all the things they condemn others for doing. […]
Traditions, as good and amusing and fascinating as they can be, also carry the risk of providing resistance, sometimes illogical, in the face of much needed change. I actually love the way traditions define one group of people from the […]
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 […]
“They think it’s all over… it is now!” is, in England’s annals of football related quotes, probably only matched by “football is not a matter of life and death; it is more important than that”. Whatever the case, with most […]