AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson✍️ Apart from ancient beliefs that women are not entitled to family inheritance, discriminatory laws, customs, traditions and family bonds are the banes that affect the work of the Family Support Unit, Traditional Leaders, the Judiciary and other groups working to address heredity marginalization against women in Sierra Leone and Kabala in particular. This is confirmed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Recommendation 319 which states that, “Women and girls in Sierra Leone continue to suffer historic structural inequality on account of their gender. Gender inequality is entrenched in all spheres of social, political and economic life by discriminatory laws, customs, traditions and practices. Paragraph 320 points out that, “the Commission notes that the State has not yet taken the necessary steps to eradicate structural inequality against women that still pervades Sierra Leonean in the areas of marriage, divorce, land rights, inheritance and the ad...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ AR The London Burgees Park gathering of a sample of Sierra Leoneans in the foreign land is nothing more than a classic demonstration of the tourism of ignorance. It is not only worrying but equally disturbing to see monumental efforts by a group of people supposedly exposed and informed to betray such callous ignorance on developments back home. Our problems back home are noticeable but not exceptional to the prevalent governance challenges across the world.  While we note the absolute need to support government efforts at resolving those problems, we strongly believe that a touristic approach in solving our problems is not desirable. Regrettably, this is misdirected energy! Cash and time resources directed at this ignorance tourism are typical excellent waste.  We pride on and value locally generated and applied solutions to our problems.  Sierra Leoneans back home understand and appreciate the changing political and economic dynamics. Any deliberate a...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ The elements of Nationalism and loyalty to the state are paralyzed. Citizenship is conditioned and defined along the narrow and predatory lines of tribe, region and the political party. Governance has lost its space in the national discourse and in its place a gaping space for politics.  The national fabric is completely consumed by politics.  The stampede for political capital is horrible and on the rails a visibly disdainful disconnect from governance with a widening culture of political denial.  The professional class has withered and politics becomes a blossom and blissful garden. A sense of urgency needs to exist. Loyalty to the three elements of tribe, region and political party must deflate.  Our loyalty must inflate and upload on the side of the nation state. This is the road for a greater Sierra Leone.