What is wrong with political parties in Salone?
In one of our Saturday Editorials last year, we examined the role of political parties in a democracy, highlighting how weak parties in Sierra Leone are part of the country’s political problem. With recent events in the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) and the National Grand Coalition (NGC) in mind, we are inviting ourselves […]
Freetown the Free Town
The capital, Freetown has turned into a sprawling slum. From east to west, it has lost shape, looking less and less like a nation’s capital. What used to be a small, beautiful city on the coast has become an extremely busy and overpopulated place with no order. Freetown needs to be freed from its freeness […]
Period poverty and the ‘padded philanthro-politics’ of the first couple
The stadium incident in Bo this week, involving girls who went to collect free menstrual pads handed to them by President and Ms. Bio, was very unfortunate. It is our hope that the children get well, and very soon. We do not want to dwell on the incident at a time when the girls and […]
June 2023 must be about people and the economy
We may be sounding like a broken record on the state of the Sierra Leone economy. Well, who gets tired of talking about the economy, especially when things are only going from bad to worse? It is like a pair of shoes that pinches—the longer you wear it, the more painful it gets. The elections […]
What a chimpy-passporty week!
It has been a chimpy week in the land. So, we thought we could weigh in because this chimp-passport debate has been so loud with a hint of misdirected energy. We are not going to dwell on the fact that there is a chimp or “baboo” on the pages of our passports. If the designers […]