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How A Former Colonial Power And Its Ex-Colony Are Faring In COVID-19 Fight By Sheka Tarawalie - (Shekito)✍️ 59 years ago, a sprightly 35-year-old Queen Elizabeth II took the long sea-journey on the Royal yacht Britannia to give her blessings to Sierra Leone’s Independence from Britain. Amid pomp and pageantry, and accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, Her Majesty gave a message of hope to the then-blossoming former ‘Athens of West Africa’. Last week, the occasion could not be celebrated. It was calibrated. COVID-19 had taken over: confirmed cases were rising and President Julius Maada Bio himself had to deliver the Independence Day message in quarantine. By the end of the week, a mishandling or manhandling of a corona-related incidence at the maximum Pademba Road prisons (where an inmate had tested positive and the authorities were vacillating on what to do with the rest of the inmates) left more people dead from gunshot wounds than from COVID-19 itself.  The situation has now become s...

By: Mohamed Kelfala Sesay - (Mega Jews)✍️ Journalist and Activist  Freetown Sierra Leone 6th May, 2020 12:00 HRS   Youth is the golden stage in human life. It is the stage between childhood and adulthood and it is the most difficult stage in life. It is the stage following childhood and the stage that precedes maturity. Sophia Loren once said that: "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love". During the youth age in life, there are so many opportunities but life also faces threat. Make good use of the opportunies and try to overcome the threats. Learn from all these experiences and always try to overcome. Youths are no longer leaders of tomorrow but leaders of today. So many people have been tagged successful during their youth age and so many youths have also been tagged as failures during this period. These human judgements are made base on how you handle your opportunities and ch...