By Ibrahim Abdullah Arthur Antar Abraham, triple A for short, (aka Karmoh), was unarguably the historians’ historian amongst the first generation of university trained historians that the Sierra Leone academy produced. Not only was he of a leftist/pan-Africanist persuasion amidst mainstream empiricists and middle of the road fellow travelers, Abraham had a much broader research […]
Triple A Passes On! An Appreciation Read More »
The Africanist Press publishes the following statement from the Lunsar Advocacy Group in the United States of America to express our solidarity in the ongoing defense of the rights of Professor Sheikh Umarr Conteh who is currently detained without charge in Sierra Leone. Read the full statement below: “Our lives begin to end the day
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By Ibrahim Abdullah Walter Anthony Rodney is arguably the most important theoretician cum activist-scholar—in the mold of C.L.R. James and W.E.B. Dubois—who lived and worked in Africa, and approached the troubling question of African identity and liberation from the vantage point of Pan-Africanism. Born of working class parentage in Guyana in 1942, Walter grew up
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In March of this year, Africanist Press published three articles in our Sierra Leone investigation series, which highlighted the existing disparities in the national salary structure and how the payroll has widened since Maada Bio assumed power two years ago. We pointed out an explosive
Workplace injustice in Sierra Leone: Unlawful dismissals at the Bank of Sierra Leone Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, & Mark Feldman On March 1 of this year, Africanist Press released the first article in our ongoing investigative series on corruption within the government of Sierra Leone in the two years since Julius Maada Bio assumed power. The first and second installments of our investigation series highlighted
Coronavirus and the Crisis of Democracy in Sierra Leone: An Editorial Position Read More »
By Babatunde Omilola Like every other pandemic that the world has experienced in the past, coronavirus will eventually come to an end. It will be defeated, and life return to normal. But it will teach us an important lesson: the need to invest in health infrastructure across the world, and particularly in Africa. For
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York and eighty-one other human rights and media groups have issued a letter to African heads of state demanding the release of all journalists detained across African prisons. The letter, addressed to Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria, Benin’s Patrice Talon, Burundi ‘s Pierre Nkurunziza, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, Chad’s
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By Lionel Zevounou, Amy Niang and Ndongo Samba Sylla The threats that are hanging over the African continent with regards to the spread of COVID-19 demand our individual and collective attention. The situation is critical. Yet this is not about mitigating another ‘African’ humanitarian crisis but to diffuse the potentially damaging effects of a
The Time to Act is Now: Letter to African Leaders Concerning the COVID-19 Crisis Read More »
By Akinwumi A. Adesina These are very difficult days, as the world faces one of its worst challenges ever: the novel coronavirus pandemic. And it seems almost no nation is spared. As infection rates rise, so does panic across financial markets, as economies drastically slow down and supply chains are severely disrupted. Extraordinary times call
Coronavirus Pandemic is no time for fiscal distancing Read More »
By Ibrahim Abdullah Eldred Durosimi Jones was a literary giant; a legend in his own life time; and a leading light amongst Sierra Leone’s first generation of world class scholars—the Durham Brahmins. But Jones arguably stands alone, not unlike a colossus, amongst those who took part in the battle to ‘decolonize’ and ‘indigenize’ scholarship
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