Category: One Drop

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) I came to know of the American author, Mark Twain, through the abridged version of his celebrated novel: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, which was…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Those of us who attended Sunday School, at the Ebenezer Methodist Church at Circular Road in central Freetown in our childhood in the early 1980s,…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) From the Pontiff in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City to the nine Imams of the Grand Mosque in Makkah to Emirs to Kings and…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) One of the traits of President Julius Maada Bio is his tendency to give with the left hand and take back with the right. His…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) The countdown to the eventual demise of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) government has begun. It began last Saturday when the registration processes,…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Chinua Achebe says in his novel, Anthills of the Savannah, that “if you want to get at the root of murder , you have to…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) I’m still wondering which rational investor will go to any country where the Foreign Affairs Minister tells the world that hundreds of thousands of their…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) It would have been surprisingly surprising if members of the All People’s Congress (APC) are surprised that Alpha Kanu, the Resident Minister for North-West now…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Let me start with a little disclaimer: I’m a typical unadulterated “Freetong Boy” who can rightly claim to be a De-tribalised Sierra Leonean simply because…

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) You can take this to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a guarantee: Even the unrepentant ‘Paopaists’ are beginning to be very frightful that…