No Freedom After Free Speech In Sierra Leone
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) By expunging Part Five of the Public Order Act 1965 and bringing the Cybercrime Act 2020; the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has figuratively…
There Was An ‘Athens Of West Africa’
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Sierra Leone is, at present, in a messy mess because of three reasons: dishonesty, willful stupidity, and the glorification of mediocrity. It is hard to…
The ‘True Sierra Leoneans’ Versus ‘The Other People’
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Those who have encountered the research of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, must have come across the idiom: “A Freudian slip”, or the word…
I Respectfully Disagree With Sorie Fofana
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Whenever I want to read a good newspaper (or social media) article with “excellent grammatical prose…” (in the words of Dr Sama Banya aka “Puawui”)…
Simply Call It ‘SLPP-cide’
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Before now, I knew of matricide; patricide; fratricide; regicide; tyrannicide; deicide; genocide, and suicide. But quite recently, while watching a documentary on the BBC television…
SLPP Is Still Insulting Our Collective Conscience
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) There has never been a time, in Sierra Leone’s history, when the ruling elite seem to be making a conscious and concerted effort to insult…
Should I Call Dr Sama Banya Father Or Grandfather?
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Anyway, last things first. Whilst I was in Form One (Mauve) at the Prince of Wales in Freetown, Dr Sama Banya aka “Puawui” had a…
APC Is Pro-People; SLPP Is Anti-People
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) This is not a joke. I’m seriously serious as seriousness can be serious. The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) appears to have taken Sierra Leone…
Is President Bio So Desperate?
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Elders in Africa have always used proverbs to summarise, or explain, certain situations or happenings. One of those proverbs that come to mind, in relation…
Is NEC Brewing Another Conflict?
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Today, I will not write anything about President Julius Maada Bio whose government appears to be misogynistic in its modus operandi. The suspended Auditor General,…