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Sierra Leone’s Historic First Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Who Appointed First Lady Fatima Bio As Commissioner?

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by Fatima Babih, EdD The people, power, and unanswered questions behind Sierra Leone’s historic debut in Venice Part I: A Pattern Hiding in Plain Sight Sierra Leone made history this year. But we did not hear about it from our … Continue reading →

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An MHA Degree is NOT An MPH Degree or A Magic Wand: First Lady Fatima Bio Weaponizes Her New UCLA Degree

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by Fatima Babih, EdD Fatima Bio’s UCLA graduation is being widely celebrated by her supporters, but the true significance of her new degree warrants a closer look. As photographs and videos circulated on social media showing First Lady Fatima Maada … Continue reading →

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First Lady Syndrome and the Crisis of Accountability: When Controversy Becomes a National Liability

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by Fatima Babih, EdD For years, Fatima Bio’s paid supporters told Sierra Leoneans that questioning the unbecoming conduct of their First Lady was “hatred,” “jealousy,” or political sabotage. But today, the concerns her paid supporters dismissed are no longer confined … Continue reading →

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When Trauma Becomes A Weapon: Deconstructing Fatima Bio’s Shape-Shifting BBC Narrative

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How Sierra Leone’s First Lady weaponized victimhood while her timeline keeps changing by Fatima Babih, EdD Sierra Leone’s First Lady Fatima Jabbie Bio, just gave an emotional BBC World Service interview that is aimed at cleaning her tarnished image and … Continue reading →

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Sierra Leone First Lady Fatima Bio’s Promised Safe Homes for Girls That Never Manifested: Eight Years Later Where Did She Spend the Donor Funds?

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By Fatima Babih, EdD In June 2022, Sierra Leone’s First Lady, Fatima Bio, boarded a chartered private jet alongside an entourage reportedly numbering around 50 people and flew to The Gambia to receive an honorary doctorate award in Humane Letters. … Continue reading →

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When Truth Becomes Optional: The Fatima Bio Educational Records Controversy and What It Reveals About Borrowed Power in Sierra Leone

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A timeline mystery that exposes the dangerous rise of ‘truth is whatever we can pay for’ politics in Sierra Leone by Fatima Babih, EdD For days, Sierra Leone’s social media has erupted over a seemingly simple question about First Lady … Continue reading →

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When the Sierra Leone Presidency Becomes a Soap Opera: Fatima Bio, First Lady Syndrome, and Sierra Leone’s Crisis of Leadership

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By Fatima Babih, EdD While Sierra Leonean mothers die giving birth for lack of basic medical supplies, while a high number of youth dying from the deadly drug Kush because they see no future, while teachers work months without pay, … Continue reading →

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Fear Is Governing Sierra Leone Today You Speak You Are Detained: Edwina Jamiru vs Fatima Bio

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by Fatima Babih, EdD I do not whisper when power intimidates the vulnerable. And I will not soften this. What happened to Ms. Edwina Hawa Jamiru, a mother of an infant baby, a law school student and sexual violence survivor, … Continue reading →

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First Lady by Day, Genital Mutilator by Night: Fatima Bio’s Deadly Power Grab

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by Fatima Babih, EdD She calls herself a champion for girls. Now she holds the blade that cuts their body parts! In what may be the most grotesque inversion of her Hands Off Our Girls slogan, Sierra Leone’s First Lady … Continue reading →

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First Lady Responds and Removes All Our Doubts: Tarawally vs Mrs. Bio Reveals Weak Governance in Sierra Leone

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by Fatima Babih, EdD A constitutional democracy demands that power flows from law, not proximity. But in today’s Sierra Leone under Julius Maada Bio, a public exchange between a ruling-party insider and the First Lady has exposed a deeper and … Continue reading →