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I began my address to the recent Commonwealth-Sierra Leone conference on media and post-war reconstruction by agreeing with Professor Francis Nyamnjoh, that journalists in Africa – and I should add Sierra Leone in particular – have not clearly defined their journalism. Defining our journalism, I explained, meant that we must quickly grapple with issues like what journalism in Africa, especially in Sierra Leone, is all about. What its mission is and therefore how we should go about it.