Mayor/SLPP Versus Ignorance/Enlightenment
I was bemused and amused after reading the March 31, 2021 “Press Statement” by the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), with the pedantic word in its title “Incendiarism”, accusing the Mayor of Freetown, Her Worship Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, of “Hate Speech”.
What triggered my mirth the most were these words in paragraph 3: “After keenly listening to the five different audios, transcribing the words into English, having our own team of Linguists, Psychologists, Anthropologists, Sociologists, Political Scientists and Security Experts analyze the contents….” The style of the Release, its unusual length, reads like that of students at university flaunting their jingoistic intellectual prowess; and worse, it reeks with that individual and collective egoistic-ism of too many of the Mende-speaking educated elite who dominate in the SLPP – that which non-Mendes do find so irksome. If it is a political document, it sure is u
By Abu Shaw (14/04/2021)
Police brutality, under the ruling SLPP government, reared its ugly head again against angry university students who protested in Freetown on Monday.
Sierra Leone citizens have today lost all the semblance of human rights and free expression. The Sierra Leone capital was like a war zone Monday morning when aggrieved IPAM students of the University of Sierra Leone were mobbed by well-armed police personnel leaving many badly wounded with beating marks on their bodies. A female student was particularly manhandled by police officers who pinned her down on the ground and had her clothes ripped off in broad daylight. She was subsequently whisked off in a police vehicle. (Photo: IPAM female student’s wounded body).
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By Paul Duwai-Sowa (PDS), Toronto, Canada
On Saturday April 11, 2021 the Sierra Leone intellectual platform, LeoneNet informally known as the âJunctionâ and friends of Ahmed (Stokes) Koroma (photo) will host an evening of poetry with the rendition of Koromaâs poetry collections, Of Flour and Tears, Along the Odokoko River, and The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko.
Ahmed (Stokes) Koroma a Poet? Yes! Like Raymond Sarif Easmon, a Sierra Leonean Physician famous for words than medicine, Ahmed Koromaâs education is as contradictory as the cities he writes about in his poems.
Koroma is a native of Sierra Leone where he attended two of the most prestigious boys schools, St. Edwards Secondary and the Prince of Wales. After high school, he completed undergrad in Chemistry at one of Africaâs oldest western-education-type universities, Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone. He emigrated to the United States of America to pursue graduate studies in Chemistry a
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