This article was first published on 18 April 2005 during the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) administration of Tejan Kabbah. By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah I read with amusement last Thursday Dr. Sama Banya’s statement that he has placed me and Concord Times in his “will not grant interview list.” Dr. Banya says he has […]
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Eight years ago, on 28 October 2016, I was invited to Evanston, Illinois, as a guest speaker by Northwestern University’s Program of African Studies (PAS). A few months earlier, my book on the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak had just been published and I was on a self-funded book tour
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah This essay was first published on March 28, 2018 Events unfolding in Freetown this week have illustrated the political mood in Sierra Leone. The incumbent regime of Ernest Bai Koroma and his All Peoples Congress (APC) have been all-but-defeated and are now in a permanently collapsing defensive position. There is
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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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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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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah On November 2, the world commemorated the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. This day is set aside to help raise awareness of diverse challenges faced by journalists and mass media communicators in the exercise of their profession. The United Nations noted that this year’s events should
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