Ernest Koroma, Maada Bio, and Electricity Corruption in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone's Energy Minister, Kanja Sesay announced on Friday that he is resigning from the Maada Bio regime because of the alleged failure to pay outstanding debts owed to the Turkish Karpowership ...
28 Apr 202441min
The MCC, DFC Deception and Electricity Corruption in Sierra Leone
The privatization program in postwar Sierra Leone was supposedly advanced by international financial institutions – the World Bank, IMF, African Development Bank – as a multi-sectoral development stra...
21 Apr 202442min
Sierra Leone: Debts, Disease, and Drugs
In previous episodes, we mentioned how the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) issued more than US$500 million in debts between 2019 and 2023 to the Maada Bio regime through unscrutin...
14 Apr 202438min
African History Series: Walter Rodney on Crisis in the Periphery
Walter Rodney was a historian, political activist, and academic. Born in 1942 in Georgetown Guyana, Rodney’s research focused on slavery and colonial imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean. His notab...
6 Apr 20241h 18min
Britain, United States, and Sierra Leone's Debt Crisis
In this episode, we discuss how hidden competition between British financed corporations and United States-backed companies for control of non-transparent service-related contracts and corruptly award...
31 Mar 202437min
African History Series: Carlos Cardoso and Mozambique's Corrupt Elites
Carlos Cardoso was assassinated in the Mozambican capital of Maputo in late November 2000 while investigating the theft of US$14 million from the Commercial Bank of Mozambique (BCM). Born in 1951 to ...
30 Mar 202432min
How Foreign Debts Undermine Democracy in Sierra Leone
Between July 2021 and June 2023, United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved over US$360 million in debts to supposedly finance critical infrastructure projects in Sierra Leone. The d...
17 Mar 202441min
African History Series: Rob Williams and Black Power in the United States
Robert Franklin Williams was a black American civil rights leader who served as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and early 1960s. Williams advocated armed sel...
16 Mar 20241h 1min
