present OBAMA envisage for the African people in his many speeches especially the one made on his historic visit to Ghana. It is not a crime to think and dream big for Sierra Leone, it is the only way forward better things can be attracted by the unifying forces of positivity. We must transform ourselves from a humiliated, exploited, disgraced and confused personality we made of ourselves as a nation to a RESPECTFUL GLOBAL CITIZEN capable of developing our potentials by enhancing and transforming our resources to human gains and capitals for national benefits.
A lost priority of Sierra Leone’s development is about the fact that the reality of issues has been woefully neglected. President Koroma’s vision and the people’s collective energies in ideologies are what the country needs and surely development will happen, “a paradigm shift”. It is worthwhile to note that the ideologies laid down in the 1960s that is perceived as outdated believe it or not is the “model of development” by which we still continue to rely on and adopted. Nothing actually new has happened that much since 1961. The late Siaka Stevens was a leader of vibrant national passion for development and self-reliance who embarked upon very costly nationwide infrastructure improvement scheme and in the same vein, gave credence to home-grown solutions towards insuring food security by strategic improvements in the agriculture sector including business ventures that saw many Sierra Leoneans entrepreneurs emerging taking their rightful places in the many businesses. In the late 70s most of the rampaging nature of multinational companies in pulling their resources and investments from Sierra Leone was to deliberately take us backward knowingly preparing the ground ripe