By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Much has been said about the All Peoples Congress (APC) dance parade this past Friday. In particular, ruling party propagandists and their supporters have celebrated the dancing crowd, including the violence that accompanied the masquerade. They are claiming that the crowds that trooped into the streets of Freetown on Friday …
The APC’s Dance Parade Does Not Indicate an Election Victory Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah When NGC officials confirmed Kandeh Yumkellah as their party’s presidential candidate in late 2017, little did they realize that they had plunged their party into a deep kettle of a mess. In the course of the confirmation, NGC officials noted that Yumkellah had renounced his foreign citizenship status in November …
How NGC and Kandeh Yumkellah Plunged Themselves into a Legal Mess Read More »
By: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Ernest Bai Koroma and his APC are now fully convinced that they will not win the upcoming elections in a free and fair contest. APC presidential candidate Samura Kamara is extremely unpopular and has failed to electrify the APC base. The divisive and anti-democratic actions of the Koroma regime over …
Electoral Politics of the Dual Citizenship Debate in Freetown Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah In early December 2017, the Sierra Leonean political scientist Zubairu Wai, in an incisive social media comment titled “the dilemma of a ghost,” characterized Kandeh Yumkellah as “a parachute politician who believes he is doing the country a favor by running for president.” Wai notes that Yumkellah’s militant desire for …
Yumkellah’s NGC: Windshield Wiper Politicians and Social Media Vigilantes Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The people of Sierra Leone are fed-up with the excruciating pain, economic hardship, and political disaster that the government of Ernest Bai Koroma and his kleptomaniac gang of rogue politicians have inflicted on the country. If there is one thing that we are all united in, as pro-democratic forces …
Kandeh Yumkellah and the Political Jihadists of the NGC in Sierra Leone Read More »
