SAMA BANYA (PUAWUI): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2019: In Williamson’s “History of the British Empire” which was one of the Geography text books for the Cambridge School Certificate Examination of my time (1940 – 48). it is stated that the first set of European settlers in North America were [Read More]
Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2019: I spend a lot of my leisure these days on Social Media, especially on WhatsApp, where many of the posts are biased political innuendos depending on which party the subscriber supports. Other posts could quite frankly be described as [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2019: Social media is currently agog with different opinions culminating from a communication addressed to the Chief Minister Prof. David Francis, on whether or not a bribe of $1.5 million was paid into his account by a mining company that [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2019: It rained for most of last week and I began to wonder whether nature had changed her mind so that we were now having the “Seven Days Rain” in late July rather than in its usual month of August. [Read More]
Puawui Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2019: Much has been said and written about the quality of leadership of the late former President Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah. He had many virtues and left a legacy that is worthy of emulation. One was highlighted recently by the publisher of the [Read More]
PUAWUI- DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2019: “My Lords, Ladies and gentlemen! And members of the fourth estate”. This statement is attributed to Edmund Burke who used it in 1787 in the House of Commons (Parliament) of Great Britain. Burke said that there were three estates of [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2019: In my last Puawui column under the title “Crooked Thinking”, I stated that I was in agreement with APC’s “one drop” Mohamed Sankoh that we do not need a Bintumani conference now but added quickly that it was for [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2019: “The SLPP government of Brigadier Julius Maada Bio is guilty of human rights abuses. Hundreds of people have been removed from their jobs and replaced by Paopa supporters, how does the President expect the families of the affected victims to [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2019: There are reports doing the rounds that government plans to divest its direct involvement in the running of the Sierra Leone Produce Monitoring Company, SLPMC, the successor to the former Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board, SLPMB. Many would agree [Read More]
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