• Alex Park

The nature of the business makes it hard to hold investors accountable when they do wrong.

• Ishmael Beah

A new film, "Sing Freetown" (director: Clive Patterson) and accompanying theater project from Sorious Samura and Charlie Haffner attempt, with varying success, to sing a different song of Freetown.

• Vickie Remoe

While Sierra Leone has come very far in its fight against sexual violence the question of safeguarding victims especially children needs urgent attention.

• William Shoki

On AIAC Talk this week, we mark Independence Day in Sierra Leone, and Freedom Day in South Africa—but what does freedom really mean on the ground in these countries? Watch the show live Tuesday on YouTube.

• Boima Tucker

The first episode of the new season of Africa Is a Country Radio, our monthly music show, focuses on the port city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Listen on Worldwide FM and follow us on Mixcloud.

• Dariusz Dziewanski

Young Africans are breathing life into Tupac’s memory, channeling his image and his music to be heard and seen in social spaces where they feel neither audible nor visible.

• Brooks Marmon

Recalling its Ebola hysteria would help the US better confront COVID-19.

• Boima Tucker

Father's Day reflections for the time of COVID-19.

• Ishmael Beah

Africans rarely re-evaluate ourselves, the basis of our knowledge and our traditions on our own terms, argues Sierra Leonean writer Ishmael Beah.

• Paul Fargues
• Aline Deschamps

Surviving the COVID-19 crisis as a jobless Sierra Leonean domestic worker in Lebanon. They are stuck together after losing their jobs or fleeing abusive employers.

• Lamin Fofana

An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe's longtime fascination with African culture.

• Boima Tucker

A border crossing mix of Afrobeats and Zouk and an interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic music producer, Lamin Fofana.

• Fatou Wurie

Sierra Leoneans take center stage as storytellers and active witnesses in a new documentary about the Ebola outbreak.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

The friendship of the poets Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare is the subject of the road movie documentary, "The Poets."

• Benjamin N. Lawrance

Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?

• Jamie Hitchen
• Kieran Mitton

In Sierra Leone, politicians make promises to youth in exchange for support in elections, but they rarely deliver. This must change.

• Francisco Perez

Cubans are far better prepared than most for public health and climate emergencies. African countries should emulate the island nation in this regard.

• Luisa Enria

For young people in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, there is a code for the perilous journey that they are making to Europe via Libya.

• Boima Tucker

Blood Orange and Sampha are two London-raised artists with Sierra Leonean roots, currently making waves on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Chernor Bah

One in three girls aged 15 to 19 in Sierra Leone has been pregnant or had a child at least once.