Tag: Opinion
Final Words on Sierra Leone 50th Anniversary Scandal
Salone na we all yone Last week Standard Times News paper got a copy of the 50th Anniversary Secretariat Accounts and published them. I bought the paper and not having access to ...If Hawanatu is Sierra Leone’s Future…then fear not, cause it is super bright
‘ode to Hawa…the Baby Genius (before she was a mouth full) I have a two year old neice who leaves at home with us. She is the center of our world at ...Claiming Ishmeal Beah And Standing By Him
Last weekend an article was written in the Australian claiming that Ishmael Beah may have gotten the dates and length of the time spent as a child soldier wrong. Supposedly, the attack ...SwitSalone Six Months Later : feelings from the Inside out Outside in
I’ve been in Sierra Leone for 6 months now and I must say…its been hard, frustrating, humbling, and lonely. When I first got here my sense of purpose was strong and comforting. ...Rainy Days in Freetown, Kolonko Advertising, and BorbohBellehs
For the past three days the rains in Freetown have been unforgiving…….Some people carelessly use the phrase “its raining cats and dogs”…but you really have to be here to have an appreciation ...Claiming Ishmeal Beah, Identification and national Allegory
Image via Wikipedia Claiming Ishmael Beah, Identification and National Allegory On March 5th 2007, I had the opportunity to sit in on a reading by author of a Long Way Gone; Ishmeal ...The Luxury Of Not Living in Sierra Leone
I have a friend who recently lamented that he had lost hope in SL and though this disheartened me it also got me thinkin…It brought me back to earlier this year in ...