By Umaru Fofana
Does anyone care about what students in this country, especially at Fourah Bay College, suffer in their day-to-day life on campus? I ask not because I elicit an answer from you. I know the answer. It is a big NO! And these students go through quite a lot.
By Umaru Fofana
All across the country you find them: bauxite, diamonds, gold, iron ore, Rutile. Throughout the motherland you see them: poverty, deprivation, depravity, abandonment, neglect. The more these resources are, it seems, the less the people get to know about them let alone have anything to show for them. Our mineral resources. Transparency suffocated. Secrecy enhanced. Mining contracts shady. Best practice shoddy.
By Umaru Fofana
How many of you, may be us, still remember the date on which the first round of the 2007 elections happened? Please be honest and do not read this piece any further until you have quizzed yourself and have come up with an answer, however wrong.
By Umaru Fofana
On Monday 11 February 2013 Kenya’s presidential candidates for the March election held for the first time a live public debate that has been hailed worldwide. It is one step in strengthening democracy in a country whose last polls left its image battered and its democratic credentials pulverised.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
