45th Anniversary of the Death of a Selfless Journalist and Politician: Ibrahim Bash Taqi (1934-1975)
ENEMY of the STATE Tribute: 45 years ago today he fell fighting for freedom, but he’s never dead -------------- By: Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk)✍️ -------------- First published in July 2007 He hailed from Matotoka, in the Tenneh chiefdom, Tonkolili district and started off as a teacher at the Bo School in Bo before taking up a job with the Mobil Oil Company at Kissy, Freetown. But he was soon sacked because of his political tendencies. Consequently, Ibrahim Bash-Taqi entered active politics by joining the All People’s Congress (APC) political party, where a union man named Siaka Probyn Stevens was already mobilizing. Bash-Taqi established a newspaper called ‘We Yone’ which he used to publicize his political ideas. Within weeks in the market the newspaper became very popular. It was the period of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) in governance, under the leadership of Sir Albert Margai. Albert wanted to entrench a one-party system of governance, but ‘We Yone’ was out-rightl...