By Isaac Massaquoi
From my 2013 notebook
By Isaac Massaquoi
Not everybody will accept this: Emerson Bockarie's take on the major issues of the day in Sierra Leone in his latest album was the major talking point throughout the country which closed the year 2013 and started the year 2014. Can I please see the hands up of those in agreement with me.
Christmas Boxes, Envelops and Dash Cards
By Isaac Massaquoi
In the last few weeks, I haven't been to any government office, including Youyi Building without seeing a nicely wrapped, so-called Christmas box into which every visitor is expected, even required, to drop some money for the benefit of the organisers of this sophisticated begging project which to me is just like those aggressive ones near the Bank of Sierra Leone or at all our petrol stations in this country.
A picture is worth a thousand words, But...
By Isaac Massaquoi
Imagine this for a moment: a member of your family or a very close friend is killed in a road accident. On the morning of the next day, you see the gory pictures of the incident splashed across the front pages of national newspapers. How would that make you feel? Let's even say you don't know anybody in the pictures published in such pornographic details, how would you react?
Ansarul violence and the wider questions
By Isaac Massaquoi
I am happy to go on record again, calling for authorities to be more decisive and even-handed in dealing with public order problems and not create the impression as if anybody can do anything and get away with it. Or the police can shoot and kill people then embark on elaborate cover-up to deflect public attention from their weaknesses.
Al-Shabaab threat: Are we losing focus already?
By Isaac Massaquoi
Like many other Sierra Leoneans, I think that after the initial shock caused by the Al-Shabaab attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya we are returning surprisingly quickly to our usual ways of life before our troops were deployed to Somalia which triggered the Al-Shabaab threat to attack us.
