Sierra Leone: Nation is Much Better Than You Think Mninawa Ntloko

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Freetown — One of the most sickening aspects of journalism is when you see people that you expect much from misusing and degrading the profession. As a sports editor of your average South African newspaper, you expect that person to at least be a professional journalist that carefully observes and does cautious investigation before running to very degrading and flawed conclusion about a whole nation.

Mninawa Ntloko is the sports editor for South Africa's BusinessDay newspaper; he was among the Bafana Bafana delegation that came to Sierra Leone for last week's AFCON. He spent about 36 hours in my country (most of which was spent at night) and yet still he has a whole bunch of conclusions and false perceptions.

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