Roland Bankole Marke

In Sierra Leone, solar lights are being installed around the country and extended to some provincial towns as well. But what is happening to the National Power Authority (NPA) that provides electric power supply to Freetown and its periphery?

Today, who would think that African women are backward or subservient? Indeed, they have evolved from playing more traditional and cultural roles to relatively impressive, if not enviable leadership positions.

Publication date: September 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4653-6842-3
Publisher: Xlibris.com

I’m delighted, if not enchanted, when a Sierra Leonean ventures into the literary realm, and Dr. Louis Bankole Jones’ maiden and slim collection of poems: ‘Over The Years’ is no exception.

Deputy editor of The Patriotic Vanguard, Roland Bankole Marke, had a chat with Dr Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Penn State University, a prize-winning poet and a vocal survivor of the inglorious Liberian civil war.

Dr Mandy Garber is a Sierra Leonean psychiatrist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She spent the month of April volunteering at the Kissy Psychiatric Hospital, and her experience was sobering.

On 19 July 2010, shockwave news of the horrible tragedy of a Sierra Leonean couple spread like wild bush fire during a severe harmattan season, especially among the Sierra Leonean community in the United States.

This groundbreaking book 'Weh Dehn Say?

President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, employing the powers vested in him as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, recently issued an executive order authorising a joint contingent of military and police forces to patrol the streets of Freetown and the major provincial towns to fight a br

Marcella Camara-Macauley was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, west Africa. At the tender age of 18 months, she was afflicted with the polio virus, and for almost three years she could not walk. She began to walk late, taking baby steps the first time around, impaired by debilitating polio.

I’ve been toiling over the idea of making a strong case on why we need to support and protect black owned news media.