Dr Saidu Bangura

Dr Saidu Bangura is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cape Verde from 2016 to date. He lectures in the English Studies Course, Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, where he has been the Director of the Masters in English Studies: Linguistics and English Language Teaching, a new academic program he helped build at the University of Cape Verde. He has also coordinated Languages and Literature in the Scientific Council of the University of Cape Verde.

He holds a B.A. in English & Linguistics (FBC, USL); PhD in Translation, Communication, and Culture with a specialty in English Linguistics (University of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain).
Apart from his academic research, publications and other engagements, Dr Bangura writes poems and has published some of his poems (in English, Portuguese, and Cape Verdean) in newspapers, academic books, and poetry anthologies.



	Post-independence governance in Sierra Leone: leadership crisis or a resource curse? by Dr Saidu Bangura There is a widespread political truism in Sierra Leone: both political parties that have (mis)governed the country since independence have regional and ethnolinguistic strongholds. The SLPP seems to have an edge over the APC
	Who hates Sierra Leone? by Dr Saidu Bangura When people in a democracy are hungryand angry abouthow they are governed and lament
	A letter to Mama-Salone by Dr Saidu Bangura A letter to Mama-Salone Saidu Bangura, Palmarejo, Praia, Santiago Island, Cabo Verde.August 8, 2022. Dear Sweet Mama-Salone:

	The one-party system of the SLPP-APC coalition: fetus in fetu or Siamese twins? by Dr Saidu Bangura Fetus in fetu is as rare an occurrence as it is an inferno. This human developmental abnormali
	Who did this to us? by Dr Saidu Bangura it is as urgentas it is important as it is the moment to shelve the faux divisions to put an end to that mission that m
	Only in this land by Dr Saidu Bangura Only in this land do we have thieves parading as the people’s supposed chiefs as our people honour their own looters: plunderers metamorphose as chiefs –
	When politics becomes a disservice and a pain on the necks of people: a lament! by Dr Saidu Bangura I shed a tear for Sierra Leone this morning. If it is no