As the implementation of the revised National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) 2011-2013 is in the offing, the NACS Secretariat of the ACC has on Thursday 5th April, 2012 concluded two day training with MDAs and Civil Society Monitors at the Commission’s Conference Hall, Mena Hills, Makeni.
When it comes to the beef and battles in the Sierra Leonean (SL) Rap industry, I have always held the same conviction – competition fuels growth. Artists become better known in times of controversy. Competition in Rap music has its lexical register - ‘battle’. When battle transcends mere lyrical insults and grows into the potential for confrontation and actual enmity, it becomes ‘beef’. Beef is a common phenomenon in rap music, the most notable of which are Tupac vs Biggie, Jay-Z vs Nas, and 50Cent vs Ja Rule.
David J. Rothkopf of the online Foreign Policy magazine clinically illuminates the issues surrounding President Obama’s “under appreciated (and) undersold success stories”. Rothkopf, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, a global advisory firm specializing in transformational world trends, notes that, the Obama government’s failure to own its successes is perhaps, its greatest weakness. “…the Obama track record on many fronts is much better than the administration gives itself credit for”, emphasized David Rothkopf.
Apart from Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” who has the atypical opportunity of attending his own funeral or Nigeria’s first President, Nnamdi Azikwe aka “ZIK” (November 16, 1904 – May 11, 1996),who had the opportunity of watching and listening to his own obituary; the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) will be the first party in independent and democratic Sierra Leone which I will give the opportunity of singing its own funeral hymn.
It is the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe who, in one of his essays, says the African has a problem with translation. He notes that, a typical African first has to think in his mother tongue [or father tongue as the case may be] and then translates that thinking into the English language and that in the process a lot of images would be lost in translation. How true of The Politico newspaper of “Wednesday March 7-13, 2012” which screams on its front page: “Police State!”
The honorable member of parliament of Constituency 079 Bonthe District Hon. Mac Bailey has disclosed to this medium projects undertaken since 2010 to 2012 as a member of parliament representing that part of the country.
To call a spade a spade, the educational system in Sierra Leone is in a very deep crisis if not a total mess. This negative tendency had been looming long before the senseless rebel war which incidentally hammered in the last nail in the coffin of education when infrastructures of schools, colleges and other institutions of learning were burnt down.
When it comes to the beef and battles in the Sierra Leonean (SL) Rap industry, I have always held the same conviction – competition fuels growth. Artists become better known in times of controversy. Competition in Rap music has its lexical register - ‘battle’. When battle transcends mere lyrical insults and grows into the potential for confrontation and actual enmity, it becomes ‘beef’. Beef is a common phenomenon in rap music, the most notable of which are Tupac vs Biggie, Jay-Z vs Nas, and 50Cent vs Ja Rule.
David J. Rothkopf of the online Foreign Policy magazine clinically illuminates the issues surrounding President Obama’s “under appreciated (and) undersold success stories”. Rothkopf, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, a global advisory firm specializing in transformational world trends, notes that, the Obama government’s failure to own its successes is perhaps, its greatest weakness. “…the Obama track record on many fronts is much better than the administration gives itself credit for”, emphasized David Rothkopf.
Mainstream journalism needs a complete overhaul if it is to survive as a legitimate voice of society, according to a Sierra Leonean academic at Northumbria University.
In his new book, Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions (check this link for more info - http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=527755), Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw explores the role of the media in relation to human rights issues, making the case for the adoption of a new model of human rights journalism.
As the implementation of the revised National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) 2011-2013 is in the offing, the NACS Secretariat of the ACC has on Thursday 5th April, 2012 concluded two day training with MDAs and Civil Society Monitors at the Commission’s Conference Hall, Mena Hills, Makeni.
The Cuban Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Her Excellency Mrs. Clara Margarita Pulido Escandell and Finland’s Head of Mission in Addis Ababa, Mr. Leo Olasvirta on Tuesday 17th January 2012 expressed their intentions to hold bilateral meetings with Sierra Leone’s Minster of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Joseph Bandabla Dauda on the margins of the forthcoming African Union (AU) Summit.
Apart from Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” who has the atypical opportunity of attending his own funeral or Nigeria’s first President, Nnamdi Azikwe aka “ZIK” (November 16, 1904 – May 11, 1996),who had the opportunity of watching and listening to his own obituary; the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) will be the first party in independent and democratic Sierra Leone which I will give the opportunity of singing its own funeral hymn.
