Press Release: Corruption, Exploitation and Repression must be Stopped FIGHT FOR REVOLUTION NOW! A CALL TO JOIN THE 05 AUGUST #DayOfRage FOR NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION The situation in the country for poor people keeps getting worse. While poverty continues to increase for the many, the rate of stealing of monies that could be […]
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Matthew Anderson Protests, social unrest, violence; these symptoms do not appear in a society without a cause. When democratic expression is repressed, when the voices of oppressed people are suppressed, and when state violence becomes unbearable, the end products are social unrest and mass protests. Today’s crisis in Sierra
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By Gbanabom Hallowell Experiences in this travelogue demonstrate that the sensory details of an explosion serves to recreate memories, both real and imagined, twenty years later. Driving on the road from Freetown in Sierra Leone to Harper in Liberia, a journey of 1014 miles and meeting with several conditions, I suddenly fostered a compelling
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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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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
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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
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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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By Mohamed Gibril Sesay and Patrick Hindolo H Walker This is an argument for distancing the young from the elderly as a means of preventing high mortalities and morbidities from the COVID 19 disease caused by the new corona virus, or as it is officially known the SARS-CoV-2. It is also looks at assertions
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By Osman Benk Sankoh Imagine this: You’ve just tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Doctors say the only medication to cure you of the infection that was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late December last year is chloroquine. You are required to swallow the bitter pill. Would you think twice before asking for
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By Mohamed Gibril Sesay This is an argument for African countries, including Sierra Leone, given scare resources, to focus on the particularly vulnerable in efforts to do physical distancing and isolation as a means of flattening the coronavirus disease infection curve. The particularly vulnerable, given current epidemiological data, are people above 60 and those –
