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‘We Have Not Really Tapped Into The Potential That You Have’: Town Hall Meeting with the Sierra Leone Diaspora

19 Thursday Sep 2013

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Alpha Kanu, Amadu Massaly, Bockari Stevens, Christopher Dunn, Ernest Bai Koroma, Mabinty Daramy, Mammoud Idriss, Millenium Challenge Corporation, Richard Conteh, Sierra Leone Diaspora, Sylvia Blyden

2013-09-18 19.00.10

A week ago, I was thinking that I’d have two opportunities to hear from President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone yesterday.  However, he injured his ankle playing squash and his speaking engagement as SAIS this afternoon was cancelled.  A town hall meeting in Silver Spring with a ministerial delegation went ahead as planned in the evening.  Unlike the P-Square show, this was an instance of African time working to my favor as I arrived after work just in time to catch the comments of the delegation. Continue reading →

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