No Hiding Place Nowadays
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Geoffrey Robertson QC notes in the Preface of his influential book, “Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice”, that, “The logic of the crime…
SLPP Writes Its Own Obituary
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) In his classic novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, one of America’s greatest novelists, Mark Twain who is sometimes being referred to as the “Father…
Finally, I Give Up On President Bio
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Imagine a father who cannot provide one un-square meal a day for his unemployed wife and three young children, a father who is finding it…
The Justice Dr Binneh-Kamara Students Did Not Meet
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) The late Justice Dr Abou Bhakarr Binneh-Kamara and I first met in the late 1990s when both of us were Certificate-less, Diploma-less, and Degree-less reporters…
Ernest Bai Koroma Enters APC Discussions Again
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Is it an epiphany? Well, sort of. Most—if not all—aspiring 2028 presidential candidates of the All People’s Congress (APC) are now, though slyly, seeking the…
Sierra Leone Faces A Wet Dry Season
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Well, the English language was imposed on me in my childhood—both in school where I was not expected to speak “patwa” (our lingua franca) and…
Is The First Family First In National Embarrassments?
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) One of the misfortunes of Sierra Leone’s several misfortunes is the factual fact that most of our national leaders, since Independence in 1961 to date,…
APC Cannot Be Blackmailed
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Second things second. My late Temne-Temne father, Sorie Ibrahim Sankoh, was sent to the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for three years and…
Bio Travels While Sierra Leone Burns Down
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Those who are au fait with Roman History know of the popular myth about the unpopular Emperor Nero who was said to have played the…
APC Must Take Note Of SLPP-Provoked Violence
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Would-be events that are expected to unfold during the 2028 general elections have already started casting their shadows in 2025 with the ruling Sierra Leone…