It’s New Year’s Day 2014; a day many of us have spent a fair part of sending out wishes for things good to family, friends, colleagues… and even strangers. I am sure many of you also started the year determined […]
It’s New Year’s Day 2014; a day many of us have spent a fair part of sending out wishes for things good to family, friends, colleagues… and even strangers. I am sure many of you also started the year determined […]
As I wish you all a merry Christmas and a New Year in which dreams become reality, I hope and actually believe most of you will spare a thought for all those whose day will be anything but merry, and […]
Now that the “official” period of remembrance is over, permit me to express some thoughts. With great pride and humility, I commanded the Remembrance Sunday Service at the Stockwell Cenotaph and Memorial Garden two days ago. Standing alongside current and […]
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 […]
Whatever the reason(s) for last week’s forced or induced exits and retirements from the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), well-intentioned scholars of the military ethos will strongly recommend that all desist from politicising the situation or the history […]
Today is Africa Day; marking the 1963 founding in Addis Ababa of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU). African Unity should be celebrated today. It can be said that the formalisation of the concept and dream of […]
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 […]
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” (Karl Marx). This simple statement says so much and I raise it here out of concern that what is given to Sierra Leone and how it is given […]
I often find myself staggered by posts and comments on various forums that point to mistrust, dislike and outright bigotry driven by religion. Is it my upbringing that makes me incapable of what to me are very negative feelings with the […]
1979!!! There is revolution in Iran and a power struggle in Chad; Michael Bishop coups in Grenada and Tanzanian troops force Idi Amin out of Uganda; Flight Lieutenant J J Rawlings seizes power in Ghana and Saddam Hussein does the […]