The Sierra Leone Digest

May PEACE Prevail in Sierra Leone!
May PEACE Prevail on Earth!

The Sierra Leone Digest

The Sierra Leone Digest project is a project sustained by CADS Sierra Leone. "The Sierra Leone Digest" as the name itself suggest continues to focus attention and identify socio-economic and political issues of national importance that require urgent solution, and through dispassionate and objective analysis, try to come up with suggestions for reform in order to bring about a lasting solution to our country's problems.

For too long we have evaded the real issues and problems that plague this nation, in other words we have been scratching for too long where it does not itch. Unless and until we are prepared to approach our problems with utmost honesty, solutions to them will remain elusive.

This journal will therefore continue to serve as a forum in bringing together scholars with divergent opinions on national issues and suggesting to government alternative ideas and affording solutions to policy makers. We have realized there is an apparent political apathy on the part of the majority of the people of this country. They seem to have lost faith and confidence in any political system.

This journal therefore seeks to rekindle a sense of awareness and impress on all Sierra Leoneans that all is not lost and that Sierra Leone belongs to all of us and not just to a particular group, section or tribe and that we will only be able to forge ahead as a nation and uplift ourselves through our own boot-straps. That will be the only way out of our socio-political and economic malaise. No country or international organization will do that for us.

"The Sierra Leone Digest" is therefore a CADS and non-partisan journal and it is not the mouth-piece of any political or interest group neither it is a forum for the propagation of any political ideology to help sustain the status quo. Ad it has no regional, sectional or tribal orientation. Its ideology is people centered - the peoples ideology.

We will continue to welcome the contributions of every Sierra Leonean that has the interest of this country at heart on any issue of national importance. Our stance continues to be non-confrontational but we will be courageous to call a spade a spade where the need arises. We will continue talk not only about failures, but also achievements. We continue will talk not about the bad and the ugly, but also the good and the pleasant.

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In sponsoring the Sierra Leone Digest, the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone aims to meet the need for a journal of significant thought and opinion on social, political, economic, cultural and development issues in Sierra Leone.

The digest of difference views represent the opinions of the contributing authors and does not neccesarily reflect the center's
viewpoint or position.

The sponsorship of the Sierra Leone Digest by the Center is in line with its journalistic program to research and propound issues of developmental value to the Government and people of Sierra Leone, and foster interdependence and international cooperation, protect human rights and promote Sierra Leonean cultural interest and creative achievement in the world.

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Balancing the Budget or Unbalancing Human Lives: Structural Adjustment in Africa - An Analysis
An article on IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs in Africa. It gives a theoretical and historical background to stuctural adjustment in Africa -- Joe A.D. Alie, Phd. Department of History, Fourah Bay College (USL) was commissioned by CADS Sierra Leone to write this article for the Sierra Leone Digest: Published, August 1994.

An Interview With Dr. James Jonah -- Chairman, Interim National Electoral Commission (INEC)
As the date scheduled by the NPRC regime to return Sierra Leone to democratic civilian rule draws closer, increased attention is being focused on INEC, the body on which so much depends to transform this objective to reality. Read what the head of INEC then, Dr. James Jonah, told the Sierra Leone Digest -- August 1994.

To Know More About Our Programs, Send Us an Email at: CadsIntlPrograms@aol.com or Call Our CADS Global Network -- USA Office at:
1-720-351-5520 or Our CADS Sierra Leone Headquarters at (232 22) 224839.