Chernor Bah

Chernor Bah is a Sierra Leonean politician, currently the Minister Of Information and Civic Education for the Republic of Sierra Leone. Quotes We didn’t know terms like “SDGs” or “global citizenship” back then. But we knew this: education was the only way forward. It could heal. It could unite. It could give us the tools to imagine a different future. We marched for it, we demanded it—because we knew that without education, there could be no lasting peace. Today’s young leaders face a different battlefield. Hatred, misinformation, and propaganda travel at lightning speed. Climate change denial, conspiracy theories, and manufactured fear divide nations. In Sierra Leone, some of the same forces from my youth still exist—sometimes fuelled from thousands of miles away—with the same goal: to fracture communities, keep children from school, and weaken democracy. And yet, the solution is still the same: education. Education that teaches peace, citizenship, and resilience against lies. Renderation of his keynote speech at the 30th afs youth assembly I think what it represents is an acknowledgment that there’s a power imbalance, that the world is unjust and that we must reactively take steps to address inequality. This means addressing the imbalance of power in the relationship between the global north and the rest of the world. This shift the power also comes to mean a movement to address that, a movement to acknowledge that, to name that, and to take steps to address that. He talks about what shifting the power mean. Every country tells itself a story. Unfortunately, ours has always been written by somebody else, and it’s always been dictated by somebody else. At the Ministry of Civic Education in Sierra Leone, our ambition is to challenge that and tell a different The new name of Purposeful Production is We Are Purposeful. We changed the name about three years ago. Short form is just Purposeful. Purposeful is a feminist movement that is determined to frankly shift the power for girls. We move resources with and for girls, we proudly take monies that are in the development system and try to move them in ways that girls and activists want. In an interview When a crisis happens, people say that focusing on girls is a luxury. But once you look beyond the periphery, you find that the people who suffer the most are the girls. I think the best way of changing mindsets over time is not education, it’s not a PR campaign, it’s not an advocacy campaign. The best way to change mindsets is to show that girls have values and can be great changemakers in their community. External links Category: living people Category:Politicians from Sierra Leone Category:Government ministers