University of Sierra Leone

On 11 May 2015 a memo was delivered at my house inviting me to a meeting: “Invitation to a meeting with an appointment sub-committee to look into the renewal of appointment of Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah”.

I am currently hemmed in, battling anti-intellectual forces at our so-called citadel of learning—a broken citadel of learning, as creaky as it is disused; bearing all the hallmarks of its slavery and slavish heritage which we continue to reproduce ad infinitum, even as we sink deeper and deeper i