Mahmud Tim Kargbo, Author at Sierra Leone Live

POISONING THE WELL OF SLPP NATIONAL YOUTH CAMPAIGN MESSAGE

Failing to value and respect the types of data that minoritised scholars are collecting and the ways we are collecting them—is a form of...

THE DECLIVITY INTO TYRANNY

When you lean over in a canoe on a river, the boat tilts but then rights itself. But if there is too much pressure...

SIERRA LEONE YOUTH CHALLENGES ARE HUGE, LET’S INJECT NEW IDEAS

As the huge challenges within our country in tackling the issues of our youth keep on inciting new dangers; I ask whether there’s a...

MAKING ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSION

The national struggle against corruption in Sierra Leone today goes far beyond civil society organisations' compliance with the Anti-corruption Commission. More elusive is the...

POLITICAL PARTY MANIFESTO OR CITIZENS MANIFESTO?

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo In all our elections in Sierra Leone, preponderantly from 1996, when our nation returned to multi-party constitutional rule, political parties released...

OUR CONSTITUTION AND EXECUTIVE POWER

What does Executive power protect? Executive power is the constitutional principle that permits the president and high-level executive branch officers to withhold information from Parliament,...

BIO’s “PAOPA” MUST DITCH THE “ANIMAL FARM” MENTALITY

"Paopa!" try less fighting and speaking and doing to get “your” way—and a lot more sitting, listening, questioning, and being still. What can the resistance...

PARTISAN/REGIONALLY BIASED CIVIL SERVICE – THE VULTURES ARE GATHERING…

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Informed observers and commentators on the Sierra Leonean socio-economic and political terrain, indigenous and foreign, all agree on one fact regarding...

SLPP MORE VALUE CREATION – HOW FIRMLY GROUNDED ARE OUR ECONOMIC PROCESSES?

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo The national financial crisis, which began in 2016 which the current SLPP regime promised to fix when they were in opposition,...

When Exploitative Politics and Economics Determine Fuel Price

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Economics and very exploitative politics have always been at war – silent, sometimes violent. Like water and fuel, they don't mix...

Sober Solutions For Sierra Leone Constitutionalism

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo If there is one thing most Sierra Leoneans can agree on about the political and social developments of the last decade...

CITIZENS IN SIERRA LEONE HAVE GOOD REASONS TO BE FED UP WITH THEIR POLITICIANS

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo A few days back, an audio in which Pastor Francis A. M. Mambu blamed bad leadership for Sierra Leone’s socio-economic problems...

GOVERNMENT HUMBLED, PEOPLE CAN SEE IMF COVID-19 PANDEMIC LOANS MEANS DISASTER

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo So it’s ding ding! Seconds out! And we begin the final round of that international slugfest, the International Monetary Fund COVID-19...

ALIGNING YOU TO DO SOMETHING: IT IS TIME FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT TO RISE TO EXERT ITS IMPORTANCE IN SIERRA LEONE

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo I am not sure whether or not you have been in the same kinds of meetings as me. Meetings within the...

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