Corporate Gangsters, Rogue Elites, and Colonial Diplomats in Sierra Leone
In this episode, we discuss the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)'s acquisition of the Western Area Power Generation Project and the role of the US-financed company, Mi...
24 Juni 202448min
Dictatorship, Crisis, and Corruption in Sierra Leone
Launched in early December 2023, the Africanist Press Podcast aims to give voice to African communities through the production of weekly audio broadcasts that analyzes ongoing events in Africa as part...
16 Juni 202442min
Sierra Leone's Electricity Corruption and the Lebanon Connection
In this episode, we continue to examine the privatization of Sierra Leone's National Power Authority (NPA) in 2011 and the history of the Western Area Power Generation Project. We discuss details of ...
27 Maj 202453min
DFC Funding Electricity Corruption in Sierra Leone
In this episode, we examine the role of the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in Sierra Leone’s electricity corruption, showing how the DFC inherited a corrupt electricity contract f...
12 Maj 202448min
Corporate Gangsters and Electricity Corruption in Sierra Leone
In 2011, Sierra Leone politicians enacted a new electricity legislation that created two parallel institutions, the Electricity Generation and Transmission Company (EGTC) and the Electricity Distribut...
5 Maj 202455min
Ernest Koroma, Maada Bio, and Electricity Corruption in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone's Energy Minister, Kanja Sesay announced on Friday that he is resigning from the Maada Bio regime because of the alleged failure to pay outstanding debts owed to the Turkish Karpowership ...
28 Apr 202441min
The MCC, DFC Deception and Electricity Corruption in Sierra Leone
The privatization program in postwar Sierra Leone was supposedly advanced by international financial institutions – the World Bank, IMF, African Development Bank – as a multi-sectoral development stra...
21 Apr 202442min
Sierra Leone: Debts, Disease, and Drugs
In previous episodes, we mentioned how the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) issued more than US$500 million in debts between 2019 and 2023 to the Maada Bio regime through unscrutin...
14 Apr 202438min
