Category: Opinions

Embedded in the resolution is the gendered architecture of slavery, a dimension that the international community has yet to fully reckon with. Enslavement followed the womb. A child born to an enslaved mother inherited her status regardless of the father’s; the birth canal of the enslaved African woman becoming

Freetown, April 2026- Morkor (or Morko) is a Themne word referring to a form of oath taking that involves eating raw meat as a pledge of irrevocable allegiance to an electoral candidate. It is a belief system in which the taker is said to suffer harm or death if they break their oath when voting.

By Grace Yei-yei Moore-Sourie Freetown, 9th April 2026- I am not just tired, I am angry. Angry...

Congratulations are in order to Bo School for 120 years of being in existence and contributing immensely to the development of Sierra Leone. British educationist, Sir Leslie Probyn, who founded the school in 1906, would, if he were still alive, marvel at the strides that Bo School has made in various areas of national life-way beyond his initial concept of having a school for the sons of Chiefs.

Freetown, 7th April 2026- In an unprecedented and controversial move, Parliament this week decided to set up a special committee to investigate National Elections Watch (NEW), a large coalition of civil society organisations and the country’s leading election observer body. The motion was introduced by two ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) members, Mustapha Sellu and Ambrose Lebby, and adopted by a largely SLPP-dominated Parliament, as the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) continued its boycott of elected duties.