About Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a tropical country in West Africa, on the Atlantic coast between Guinea and Liberia. Apart from the hilly Freetown area and white-sand beaches, it is made up of mainly swampy coastal plains and plateaux, rising to uplands in the north east.
Region
Language
English Krio Limba Mende Temne
The official language is English but there are 23 languages in the country. The most widely spoken are Mende, Temne, Limba and Krio.
Population
7.997 million (2022)
Area
71,740 square kilometres
High Commissioner
H.E. Dr. Morie Komba Manyeh
Capital
Freetown
Joined Commonwealth
1961, following independence from Britain
Top Exports
Episode guests
Victoria Kanu
Poet and Activist
Victoria Kanu popularly known as Vicky the poet was born on the 12th May 2008 at Sierra Leone capital city.
Victoria Kanu is attending the Hill Valley Academy – year 11.
Victoria as a young girl is blessed with various talents ranging from acting, dancing, storytelling, and writing of poems and spoken words.
Among her numerous talents, the writing and performing of poems and spoken words emerged as the one that took her to the limelight in the Sierra Leone entertainment industry and education sector.
Vicky the poet as she is popularly called is now a household name and a national icon who has used her talent to transform and impact lives especially young children of her age.
She has performed on almost every major platform within the country, and she has made special performance for the president on various occasions.
Vicky the poet has represented Sierra Leone in New York at the United Nation Commission on the Status of Women (UNSW), where she articulate well on issues affecting children and present a poem that was highlighted as the best presentation in the conference.
She has been interviewed by the BBC and has been on front page headline on major newspapers in Sierra Leone because of her exceptional contribution towards nation building.
During the ICPD 25 , Vicky was among the Sierra Leone delegation, and she performed on a panel for female world leaders her performance was highly appreciated by the audience.
Vicky the poet is now a major voice for women and girls within the country and beyond, and she is currently serving as an inspiring figure to her generation.
Vicky goal is to become a human rights lawyer.
Nightmares of the Internet
convergence of persona, knitted with digital threads of connectivity and under the umbrella of the internet in this age seems more real than the true phenomenon of reality
our images can be weaponized to smear our character – our keypad now is a nurturing tools forming words, building fallible mindset, exposing our vulnerabilities at the virtual global stage and it is the very cage within which our growth and productivity turns into smoke blown away in oblivion
virus ideas from dark hearts constructed with devices from the pit of hell are now transmitted through the internet and this pandemic is worse than COVID and Ebola
when young people get buried on facebook, they abandoned their books – when glued to Instagram, they instantly ignored learning programs and when lust in tik-tok they get lost in reality and can’t even talk – this pattern of nothingness by giving something in exchange for nothing is killing dreams in broad daylight and buried them on the graveyards of our smart devices
social media is now a hunting ground for psychopath – a farming yard for bullies and the school ground for no brainer – this internet dark age is a deadly poison for children and even worse for girls because their sexuality are now molded with clay of deception with a total stranger perception and its seems there is no redemption – is there a way out from this contaminated conception?
this illusionary meeting place is an abyss guising as bliss and a bottomless pit of no return – but wait, is there an antidote? I doubt that
Clicking is now the facilitator of the victims and victimizers conundrum – a cycle where victims of abuse in the internet are nurtured and recycled with the same internet ingredients to turn victimizers themselves – this dark arts forming and transforming minds into dark hearts is heart wrenching and our distance on this dark and monstrous road is almost at a point of no return
It was not supposed to be like this, the internet should not be a tool of destruction, it should not be a domain of nightmare, it should not be a platform where horror and terrible atrocities are exhibited – this was not the intention of the inventors – this is a constructive error that we can dismantle and build up with weaving moral ideas, if we can start from the ground so be it, if we can begin from void, that we should not avoid.
let stitch ideas to form solutions; let join hands and fan our moral intentions to unlearn our ways of using the internet and ignite the change we all desire
again, I will ask, is there a cure?
yes! – we are the cure……….
