The West African country of Sierra Leone is struggling with massive problems: corruption, organized crime and resource exploitation are just some of them. Journalist Chernoh Alpha Bah focuses on precisely these problems in his home country and makes them understandable to the public in order to improve conditions in Sierra Leone for the good of […]
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, PhD This weekend, Sierra Leonean politicians and a few foreign diplomats have been repeating an already exhausted propaganda message they have sold to Sierra Leoneans for five years now. On Friday September 27, United States corporate representatives and diplomats announced that the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has signed
By Mark FeldMan and Nik Harris International human rights groups and press freedom organizations have continued to raise concerns for the safety of Sierra Leonean historian and journalist, Dr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah. The American Historical Association (AHA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) are among the list of press and academic freedom organizations to recently
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Those who worked with Khan, including infectious disease experts in universities across the United States and Europe, had since moved on to lucrative academic and professional careers, receiving more grants and awards. In Sierra Leone, both Khan and the Ebola disease that killed him are now distant memory; they form part of the collective public trauma that Sierra Leoneans have experienced in the last two decades and unwillingly learned to forget.
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Few months ago, the British media enthusiastically reported that “Idris Elba has shared details of his dream to turn an island off the coast of Sierra Leone, the country where his father was born, into an environmentally friendly smart city.“ The Guardian took the lead in the enthusiasm that surrounded
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By Matthew Anderson and Mark Feldman About 100 academics have signed a letter of support denouncing death threats and harassment orchestrated against Africanist Press editor and Northwestern University-trained historian, Dr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah. The academics say the attacks on Dr. Bah “constitute a clear assault on journalistic freedom [and] go to the heart of
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was first published by the Africanist Press on 7 June, 2016 following the controversial 2016 Sierra Leone Bar Association’s executive elections. The article was republished by several newspapers in Freetown, including The Independent Observer, and Global Times. We republish it today to underline that the current crisis of the Sierra
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Africanist Press editor, Dr. Chernoh Alpha Bah has accepted a two-year appointment as Postdoctoral Research Associate with Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. The Watson Institute is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and
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