Category: Blogger
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A Tale of Threads in Salone.
Some version of this piece has been in my draft for almost a year. Time they say fashions us with opportunities, but I think I’ll just settle on the notion that this write-up decided to walk out of the shop a la mode during the end of the Ramadan fasting…
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Where Have I Been?
I don’t know when I decided I would bite the opening line of Wale’s letter to Complex in 2014 as the title of my return blog piece, but frankly, it’s only fitting to give a nod to the artist who reflects my thought more than any other. I always assumed…
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Shukubly: Manifesto of a SaLone Artist by Marco Koroma
Marco Koroma takes the wheel for this journey with a guest feature article on the zeitgeist of the Sierra Leone music scene. The influence of art in the Sierra Leonean society is undeniable. From the hit songs that outline the “maps” in December to the kontri klos that offers the…
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The Disco Bash (Short Story)
It was the late ’90s to the early side of the 2000s, the era of faded jeans, the Walkman paving the way for the disc man and the trend of jazzy youth “luxing” in Freetown. One of the features of hailing from a family filled with older brothers and cousins…
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Blogging from Sierra Leone: The ‘Why’.
There are millions of narratives online about people and their stories, mostly as strangers without meeting each other we connect with these experiences as we find ourselves relating to them. The intricate nature of human existence is the simple truth that in our differences we notice familiar things that brings…