Feature

By Abdul Tejan-Cole

Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, the last apartheid President of South Africa, passed away on 11 November 2021 in Cape Town. He was 85. Few people in the world provoke more disparate views in life and death than the late FW. President Cyril Ramaphosa praised him for playing a "key role in ushering in democracy" and called him "a committed South African who embraced the democratic constitutional dispensation."

By Franklin Sisabu Bendu

By Abdul Tejan-Cole

On April 11, 2019, after over 30 years in power, the Sudanese people rose up and overthrew the dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. What subsequently replaced it was a political arrangement meant to lead the country to democracy in 3 years.

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 0.02% and 0.14% increase in COVID-19 total infections and total recoveries respectively over the week, from September 19-26, 2021.

By Franklin Sisabu Bendu

The recently announced proposal by the Bank of Sierra Leone to re-denominate the country’s currency triggered considerable reactions from many Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad. The announcement came at a time of acute shortage of the Leones in the banking system. Speculations and commentaries about the implications of this re-denomination saturated both on traditional media and on social media.

Youth of our homeland, 

You are indeed our nation's future. 

Do not scorn the staircase of the mentee,

The Savings Account of potential;

Be proud, but without the sin of pride. 

Pride, the predecessor of the prostrate, 

Resists guidance and nurturing, 

Challenges authority, ridicules sound counsel,

Pursues and pollutes promise;

That gem embedded in every human,

Which in you, resides in abundance. 

Pride promotes and presents the pompous, 

By Idrissa Hlton Gogra in Berlin

I’ve been observing the political scene in the Federal Republic of Germany over the last few weeks as the country builds up to its parliamentary elections. There are indeed certain aspects of the politics in this country that Sierra Leone can either emulate or use as a base from which to further solidify our democracy.