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 …
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.
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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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 …
New Bar Association Leadership: A Revenge of Dictatorship in Sierra Leone Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Five Sierra Leoneans have received doctorate degrees from Northwestern University since the mid-1960s. They include Enid Forde (1966, Geography), Josephus Olufemi Richards (1970, Art History), Gladys Harding (1971, Education), Augustine Stevens (1975, Political Science) and Cecil Magbaily Fyle (1976, History). I am the sixth doctoral graduate and the second historian …
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah It is now clear to all those who have been watching developments in West Africa that the June 2023 elections in Sierra Leone have turned out to be the biggest tragedy in African elections. And the embarrassment is not felt by Sierra Leone’s elite alone, but the shame is equally …
Sierra Leone: Democracy Must Not Be a Rotational Façade of the Elite Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah At this point, we are all in agreement that the elections in Sierra Leone lacked transparency; which is a key criterion for any democratic election. We also must make it known that any government that is the result of a non-transparent election is one that holds a stolen mandate. In …
Dangers of Endorsing or Participating in an Illegitimate Regime Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah This year – 2022 – marks 20 years since the launch of the Africanist Press as an independent media organization providing a platform for free speech, democracy, and accountable leadership in Africa. Africanist Press journalists have campaigned against corruption and graft across three successive regimes in Sierra Leone. As editor, …
Africanist Press: Two Decades Promoting Democracy and Resisting Corruption in Africa Read More »
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman The Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) held a press conference on Monday 19th September 2022 in Freetown to provide updates on the voter registration exercise. The Commission also attempted to respond to the Africanist Press publication on ECSL’s US$10 million procurement scandal. The Africanist …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter was sent to the parliamentary leader of the All Peoples Congress (APC) on 8th July 2022. It was written by Africanist Press Editorial Department in response to public statements made by a member of the APC party in Parliament providing defense for President Julius Maada Bio against corruption reports published …
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