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FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leonean musician and activist Emmerson Bockarie is no stranger to controversy, having received death threats from all ends of the country’s political spectrum over two decades and three successive governments.
Bockarie is back in his home country after a four-year stay in Nigeria with a new release amid heightened political friction over accusations of corruption, tribalism and partisanship between Sierra Leone’s two main political parties.
The album “9 Lives”, released in August, tackled the same societal ills that have made him a target of both ruling and opposition party supporters.
Singing in the local krio pidgin, in a track called “Kokonat” (Coconut Head) Bockarie sings: “Regardless of who’s in power there’ll be no change because they know we’ve made a strong decision to be blindly partisan.”
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Keynote address by His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio at the Presidential Media Cocktail on Friday, State House, Freetown-15 December 2020
Madam First Lady,
The Chairman of the Independent Media Commission,
The President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists,
Members of the Fourth Estate,
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,
for the media in Sierra Leone but also our great country. Just this
week, the Board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
unanimously approved Sierra Leone for a Compact. We have
achieved this because of the tremendous gains we have made in
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