The America-based Sierra Leonean wears several hats, from jewelry making to litigation. What’s her motivation?

The new Rokel Commercial Bank system employ the use of mobile phone to access customer’s account, using the debit card instead of carrying cash to places like supermarkets, filling stations, building material stores, to access goods. The system is being offered free of charge to all existing customers of the bank.

Long before I traced my African Ancestry, I had a love and hate affair with my name. I can’t deny the pride I felt at the myriad of family reunion’s I’ve attended over the years…all of us gathered to celebrate our family, our history (the little we knew), our ability to come together no matter [...]

I have someone to thank for guiding me back to solid ground. One evening, I watched in wonder as Dr. Henry Louis Gates talked about the process of DNA ancestry tracing, part of a PBS series entitled “African American Lives”. This new technology would at last provide the keys to my ancestral past.

A new satellite pay television channel was launched on Wednesday 28 November 2007 by the country’s minister of information and communications, Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo in a glittering ceremony attended by the country’s television enthusiasts.
In a brief chat with HANA’s correspondent in Freetown before the launch Kargbo said the government and people of this country [...]

Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The Constant Gardener, The last king of Scotland etc..they are not just random movies they are movies about my beloved Africa. Its the beginning of the 21st century and the world is still worried about Africa seeing that most African countries greeted the 21st century and the new millennium armed with [...]

Alyson Zureick, a “Princeton in Africa fellow” working with the International Rescue Committee in Sierra Leone, writes via Social Edge, about an audit that revealed how some $500,000 (international donation) meant “for a government-run project that never reached the intended recipients”. Excerpts:
Aid organizations constantly struggle to make sure the money they receive from donors [...]