It is usually said that those whom the God’s wish to destroy they first make mad.  This is exactly what will happen to the APC Government if they pass the new Anti-Corruption Bill 2008 in its present form presently before Parliament. The bill has been crafted by the present Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission to suit him and few of his colleagues whom he wishes to recruit to assist him run the Anti-Corruption Office for the next 10 years.

Former Sierra Leone Ruler Valentine Strasser....Is he Losing It?

Valentine Esegragbo Melvin Strasser was born on April 26, 1967 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he attended the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Grammar School up to the sixth form, post secondary level. On completing school, he enlisted in the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces (RSLMF). After his training, he rose to the rank of junior officer. He never nursed a flimsy intuition that between 1992 -1996 he would be making history, emerging as the world’s youngest dictator

“The people of Zimbabwe have been denied their democratic rights. We should in no uncertain terms condemn what has happened”. This was the bombshell Sierra Leone’s President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, sternly and uncompromisingly delivered to his colleague Heads of State gathered at just concluded African Union summit held at the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh.

The Lone Protester...Chez Winakabs at an Airport in France....Standing Up For What Is Right After Being Malreated By Airline Personnel

The saying goes: "The tribe that collects food and gathers it by the net full, will indeed, today and tomorrow see the gathered food overflowing (a Mampa proverb)Sierra Leone has always had a reputation for hospitality. So this our country must always have been fruitful, the gardens well-tended, and fully able to support our ancestors' desire to build a better future

On June 18, the United Nations’ intergovernmental Human Rights Council took an important step toward eliminating the artificial divide between freedom from fear and freedom from want that has characterized the human rights system since its inception.  By giving the green light to the Optional Protocol to the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, the Council has established an important mechanism to expose abuses that are typically linked to poverty, discrimination, and neglect, and that victims frequently endure in silence and helplessness.

Thomas N. Ward-Brew is presidential candidate of the obscure Democratic Peoples' Party (DPP) for the impending 2008 general elections. Like most of the small parties, the DPP is known to howl from the fringes; most times shallow, most times confusing, without any credible understanding of Ghana as a development project, or any alternative attempts to address Ghana’s complicated developmental challenges. 

Former UN Chief, Mr Kofi Annan’s suggestion that Africa needs a “Green Revolution” reminds me of a recent encounter with a professor at the University of Ottawa who asked me, “So, Kofi, how are Africans coping with the global food soaring prices?” I answered that there is no simple answer, and that what the food crisis teaches Africa is that Africa need is a new thinking in its agricultural productivity.

The wisdom of observation is not difficult. One must first observe others before putting in place what we have learned – proverb of Cameroon.Ghana’s Health Minister, Courage Quashigah’s idea that Ghana’s educational system need infusion of applied research and traditional knowledge for rapid development reminds me of Y. K. Amoako, the former chair of the UN Economic Commission 

I was moved to write this article after reading about the $ 1 million dollars case against New Vision newspaper. Sierra Leone is a lucky country, we are blessed with natural resources yet we are so poor due to financial mismanagement or incompetence by government officials.The most serious mismanagement in Sierra Leone has been caused by ineffective management and inadequate

A few years ago, in 2004 to be exact,  Dr. Gamal Nkrumah wrote the following appraisal about his father, and in the process put his father in the proper context of African and general human history. He also assessed the relative worth of his father's actions, policies and philosophy to individuals such as Nyerere, Mandela and Kenyatta."Kwame Nkrumah was resolutely pro-people. This fact is the heart and soul of Nkrumaism. This is why I am proud to be my father's son. Nkrumah was pro-people. He could easily have been a Jomo Kenyatta, a Julius Nyerere or a Nelson Mandela. But he was a man of the people of Africa and her children overseas"