Author: Foday Augustine Bangura

When Sierra Leone can declare a public health emergency after two confirmed cases of mpox, it should be capable of treating an estimated road death toll of more than a thousand people in a single year with the same urgency. Yet road deaths occur one by one, week after week, without the coordinated national response…

In Freetown, there exists an evil ceremony, and that is our reliance on emergency power generation from a ship in our harbour. Neighbours adjust their evening plans to the sound of their neighbour’s generator. Welders and hairdressers drop everything in the middle of their workday, and cold-chain drugs spoil in refrigerator cabinets in clinics. Students…