Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2024: When Sierra Leone weaned itself from the boorish, barbarous and inhuman decade- long war of the 90s, many hoped that it will be the end of savagery in our society. One cannot fault the optimism that coursed through the hearts and veins [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson: There is nothing more dangerous than a man in power who believes he is above the law — except perhaps one who is the law. In Africa today, a Justice of the law (Sierra Leone’s Appeals Court Judge Momoh Jah Stevens) allegedly stands accused of threatening to [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2025: The Freetown City Council (FCC) with support from the World Bank, has trained over 700 community engagement workers to support the implementation of the city’s new Sanitation Bye-Laws. The two-day training, part of FCC’s “Dorti Mus Go” campaign, is aimed at [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2025: In Sierra Leone, free speech is not a Western abstraction. It is a lived and dangerous aspiration, often bruised by the whims of the powerful and betrayed by the very institutions meant to protect it. At stake is not just the [Read More]
Mahmoud Ali Youssouf: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2025: Today, we celebrate African Union Day with pride and renewed commitment to our shared vision of a united, prosperous, and peaceful Africa. This day commemorates the Sirte Declaration of 9 September 1999, when African leaders agreed to establish the African Union. [Read More]
Dr. Columba Michael Joe Blango: Sierra Leone Telegraph: I have spent the past five weeks in Sierra Leone, mostly in Freetown, with short journeys to other parts of the country. The picture I carry with me is layered, contradictory, and deeply troubling. On the surface, there is an image of [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: “Democracy is not a spectator sport – It is a shared inheritance that must be defended by all.” The term imperial presidency was once an American cautionary tale – an oxymoron meant to warn against the overconcentration of power in the [Read More]
Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: With the failure of so-called intellectualism in helping to shape Siera Leone’s public morality, there is no point dwelling on the remaining aspects of the disastrous Stevens’ years; except that, with the grandiloquent extravagance for the OAU convention, he ensured that this [Read More]
Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: It was inevitable. This fall from grace, our descent into the whirlpool of amorality, after our independence from colonialism. It was inevitable that we would allow the best inherited virtues, institutions and laws to collapse, after they fell into the hands of [Read More]
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