Arnold Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2017 St George’s Cathedral – one of Sierra Leone’s oldest churches, took eleven years to progress from the laying of the foundation stone on the 9th of January 1817, to the first service. Ever since then it has been a busy and important [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 May 2017 It is disappointing – but sadly, unsurprising that amidst the clamour for a new brand of politics in Sierra Leone ahead of 2018, another tranche of clapped-out politicians and chorus cheerleaders have been aroused from their slumber. Their existence has inevitably [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2017 This year’s list of recipients of national honours includes the Auditor General of Sierra Leone – Mrs Lara Taylor-Pearce, who has been awarded the highest rank – Grand Officer of the Order of the Rokel. She received the award from President Ernest Koroma at [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2017 The brutal killing of another young Sierra Leonean on the streets of London’s inner city area of Peckham has heightened fear among Africans, and in particular – the Sierra Leonean community, as police were called at 3.15pm on Friday, 28 April to a chaotic [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2017: The economy of Sierra Leone is now going through its toughest phase, since the end of the Ebola epidemic. (Photo above: President Koroma). The government has run out of cash – donor funds have declined massively, inflation is rising out of control, unemployment remains [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2017 In a few months Kenyan voters will have the chance to make choices that could change the political landscape. Historically voters have tended to sacrifice this right at the altar of tribe, money or personality. But, writes Yvonne Rowa Woods, Kenyans can turn their [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2017 After ten years of holding on to power, president Koroma will today reflect on all his failed promises as he prepares to leave office next year. He will be expected to look back at his poor performance and prioritisation of the real and desperate [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2017 The people of Sierra Leone are today marking 56 years of independence from Britain. But with economic hardship and massive unemployment – estimated at over 70% of the economically active population, this year’s celebration is a quiet affair and its filled with despondency. After [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2017 The term “middle class” is bandied about to back up the claim that Africans are increasingly moving out of poverty and getting wealthier. But, writes Henning Melber, these claims are meaningless given that very little analytical rigour is applied to the definition of what constitutes [Read More]
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