Is cricket Sierra Leone’s neglected saviour sport?
A small crowd of fans, players and officials gathered at the Kingtom Oval, Freetown’s main cricket pitch, for the Women’s T20 Elite franchise League that has seen an amazing display of talent and professionalism since it started on January 27, 2023. Among the players who have come here to help their teams compete in the […]
Battling plastic waste on Freetown’s beaches
On a cool Thursday morning, just as the sun rises over Freetown and the heat peaks, about 45 women gather along Lumley Beach. They have taken on the onerous and elaborate job of cleaning up the beach, which has become an unsightly graveyard of all manner of plastic waste, from empty bottles and sachets to […]
Memba 23: the first shots
March 23, 1991, was the day the first gunshots were fired in Sierra Leone, leading to the 11-year civil war that left thousands of people dead and many more displaced. The war, which quickly gained notoriety for being one of the most brutal in the world, exacerbated the country’s socio-economic problems, as it derailed it […]
Racing to class: FBC’s overcrowding problem
When Dauda Kamara got admitted to study engineering at Fourah Bay College, he was over the moon–excited about being at Mount Aureol and hopeful about his future. A few weeks into his university journey, the euphoria started dissipating as he was struck by the reality of student life at Sub-saharan Africa’s oldest western-style university. Dauda […]