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SL TWITTERSPHERE STEPS OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND INTO THE PUBLIC-SPHERE
On September 21, Sierra Leone’s twittersphere will be stepping out into the public sphere thanks to Girl Up’s Yasmine Bilkis Ibrahim and...
Memuna Forna, Editor
Sep 6, 20182 min read
Insight Sunday reading: Last week's top 5 posts
AYV's Anthony Navo Junior - an entrepreneur to the bone It has been a stellar couple of years for Anthony Navo Junior. His TV station’s...
Memuna Forna, Editor
Jun 9, 20182 min read
FREETOWN, CLUSTERS AND COMPETITIVENESS
Imagine being a runner who always raced alone. On the plus side, there would never be disputes about the winner. You would win gold,...
MEMUNA FORNA
May 28, 20184 min read
Nailing things…
Honest reflections on episodes of national embarrassment and tragedies in Sierra Leone point fingers at failures to value logistics and...
Othame Kabia
May 28, 20182 min read
A cartoonist's view of Sierra Leone's 2018 election: Da Monk draws it how he sees it!
#DaMonk #elections
Memuna Forna, Editor
May 3, 20181 min read
Head to Head: A reply to Allieu Sesay—(on why the APC has more MPs than the SLPP)
BY YUSUF BANGURA Allieu Sesay’s analysis fails to incorporate population or registered voter shares in discussing seat allocations for...
Yusuf Bangura
May 1, 20183 min read
Head to Head: A Response to Dr. Yusuf Bangura’s Article
By Allieu Sesay Thanks Dr. Bangura. It was a fair piece, but with a weak premise and faulty conclusion. I have done some analysis to show...
Allieu Sesay
Apr 30, 20184 min read
Why the APC has more MPs than the SLPP even though the SLPP won the Presidency
By Yusuf Bangura The argument that the APC has more seats than the SLPP in parliament because it created extra seats in its strongholds...
Yusuf Bangura
Apr 26, 20184 min read
An Unpredictable Parliament: Governing without a Stable Majority
Yusuf Bangura Nyon, Switzerland 16 April, 2018 (Bangura.ym@gmail.com) The balance of power in Sierra Leone’s parliament during the...
Yusuf Bangura
Apr 17, 201810 min read
The President and his rival - more alike than they appear
They are parishioners, political rivals and former colleagues! The body language of Sierra Leone’s new President – Rtd Brigadier Julius...
MEMUNA FORNA
Apr 9, 20182 min read
SIERRA LEONEAN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS - PR, PROPAGANDA, AND COMMUNICATIONS
With a few exceptions, the Sierra Leonean election campaigns have been noticeable for their preponderance of propaganda, misinformation...
MEMUNA FORNA
Apr 4, 20182 min read
Small business owners – growth equity and thinking beyond bank debt
One of the biggest constraints for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is access to finance. In Africa,...
Fadi Bassir
Mar 19, 20184 min read
INFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND MISINFORMATION – POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS AND WHATSAPP IN SIERRA LEONE
If I’d taken at face value the WhatsApp news on Sierra Leone in the last few days, I would have described Sierra Leone as a country...
MEMUNA FORNA
Mar 7, 20183 min read
Sierra Leone’s election is an economic opportunity – if the government acts quickly after 7th March
Elections and transitions of political power carry a certain degree of uncertainty, which when interpreted by investors translates into...
Fadi Bassir
Mar 6, 20184 min read
Disenfranchised by Incompetence
There was a crowd of about 20 people outside the National Electoral Commission’s (NEC) East End office this morning (Wednesday 21...
Memuna Forna
Feb 21, 20181 min read
The Presidential Candidates' Debate - clear losers, but no clear winners
Clear losers, but no clear winners A few images from yesterday’s Presidential Candidates’ Debate summed up for me, the significance of...
Memuna Forna
Feb 16, 20184 min read
Read our editor's latest HuffPo piece
With Elections Fast Approaching, There Are Clear Signs That Sierra Leone’s Political Discourse Is Growing Up March 7 2018 is D-day for...
Memuna Forna, Editor
Jan 24, 20181 min read
Political discourse in Sierra Leone is growing-up - here's how!
D-day for Sierra Leone’s electorate is fast approaching and, while the campaign scene is still dominated by the usual mixed bag of...
MEMUNA FORNA
Jan 22, 20182 min read
Debating the political status of Sierra Leone's dual citizens is a sign of our maturing democrac
With less than two months to go before Sierra Leone goes to the polls, the political debate presently dominating the country’s social and...
PJ Mandewa-Cole
Jan 13, 20183 min read
Change, challenge and unequal resilience in Sierra Leone
We believe that ours is an age of disruption, with a constantly shifting political, economic and social landscape; and of course it is....
MEMUNA FORNA
Oct 3, 20173 min read
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