Sankara Kamara

In almost every politically conscious country, presidential contests are marked by the crafting of campaign messages and the advocacy of political values.

Rather than enhance the newly-created institutions which facilitated his march to the presidency, Ernest Koroma is actually destroying the country’s newborn democracy, thanks to his proclivity for acting like the president of a one-party dictatorship.

The death of the renowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, has thrust one of the most popular African books in the news.

At first glance, the West African state of Sierra Leone looks like an impressive exercise in democracy. Eleven years after extinguishing the flames of its civil war, Sierra Leone has conducted periodic elections, followed by the transfer of power from one political party to another.

Earlier this month, French troops were sent to Mali, an African country once colonized by an expansionist French state. Unlike the 1980s when Paris periodically sent troops to protect its neocolonial interests in Africa, France’s military objectives in Mali in 2013 are perceptibly different.

On 10 December 2012, the international community celebrated the 64th anniversary of the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights.’ On the same day in 1948, the phrase ‘International Community,’ assumed a new meaning when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the ‘Universal Declaration of Hu