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 Anne B. Wallis, PhD The Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS) in the United States has asked US Secretary of State, Antony John Blinken to use the power of the State Department to urge the government of Sierra Leone to improve its human rights record and stop the targeted harassment of historian and journalist, Dr.
By Matthew Anderson and Mark Feldman A Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS) in the United States has requested US Secretary of State, Antony John Blinken to use the power of the State Department to urge the government of Sierra Leone to improve its human rights record and stop the targeted harassment of historian and journalist,
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, PhD Staggering revelations have emerged in London showing efforts by Milele Energy and its corporate financiers to cover-up an ongoing investigation into the company’s corrupt acquisition of an energy contract in Sierra Leone. New corporate records from the United Kingdom’s Registrar of Companies obtained by the Africanist Press reveal that
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, PhD New developments have occurred last week in London relating to the United States-backed corporation, Milele Energy. The company’s two American executives, Erik Granskog and Jay Ireland have suddenly resigned from the company. This sudden and questionable resignation of Erik Granskog and James Ireland comes shortly after the United States
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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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