USA Africa Dialogue Series - A short note on Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma.

We were discussing the relative virtues of African presidents, it was
an informal little conference with some Gambian nationalists, all
friends - shortly after the little news item which later on turned out
to be completely false – that the Gambia's President Jammeh had
"banned dating services, Viber & Skype in I-Cafes".

You know how it can be when nationalists get a little emotional and
start beating their chests not only about the music but also the
politics...

And what did I have to add to the good name of Sierra Leone's
President Ernest Bai Koroma?

After ten patient years in parliament , sitting on the opposition
benches, he finally won the presidential elections in 2007 and again –
for a second term in November 2012. During all the time that he has
served as president,

1. He has not killed anyone
2. He has not caused any journalist or journalists to be imprisoned –
despite some of the irresponsible ones having written all kinds of
slanderous, libellous and maliciously inaccurate trash about him

Ernest Bai Koroma
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&gs_rn=11&gs_ri=psy-ab&cp=10&gs_id=6o&xhr=t&q=Ernest+Bai+koroma&es_nrs=true&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Ernest+Bai&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45921128,d.bGE&fp=42ed0f4dae2a3762&biw=1024&bih=579

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