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The educational system in Africa used to be the envy of the western world, but what has changed? Why is education so expensive these days when it should be free? At one stage I read about the University of Sierra Leone (Fourah Bay College) not being able to provide the […]

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002), the International Conference on Population and Development (1994), the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), and the 2005 World Summit all acknowledged the pivotal and important role women play in sustainable development. However, democratic governments and institutions have yet to draft a […]

In launching the “Agenda for Change” in 2008, the Government of Sierra Leone declared “agricultural development and food security to be the foundation of the country’s economic development and poverty reduction” strategy.   But is the large-scale acquisition of arable farmland in Sierra Leone by foreign investors part of this […]

              The commodification of Africa’s universities and the policies of mass recruitment of new students are alarming given the limited number of institutions to accommodate the mass influx of learners from secondary schools to tertiary institutions and onto the labour market. With the whole […]

The advent of democracy in Sierra Leone has opened up many opportunities for all sectors of the economy.  The involvement of the United Nations, the European Union and NGOs from around the world in rebuilding the country after over a decade of civil war gives hopes for a brighter future […]