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Vol 55 No 10

Published 16th May 2014


Sierra Leone

Only you

President Ernest Bai Koroma’s loyalists in the governing All People’s Congress are again clamouring for him to stand for a third term. That would require a change to the Constitution (AC Vol 54 No 16). A campaign based on the slogan 'After U na U' ('After you, it's you', in Krio), has been under way since mid-April, when the APC Deputy Secretary for Publicity, Robin Farley, floated it on the radio. It is lifted from the title of a recent hip-hop album, After me na me, by local artist Star Zee, who uses it to declare her dominance of the country’s female rap music scene.

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