The Leaking Roof: A Sierra Leonean Love Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197935335)

The Leaking Roof is a deeply personal and politically charged examination of why Sierra Leone remains trapped in cycles of poverty, dependency, corruption, and institutional fragility despite its vast natural and human potential.

Blending memoir, political economy, national reflection, and systems analysis, the book argues that Sierra Leone's crisis is no longer simply the result of isolated corruption or failed leadership. Instead, the country has developed what the author describes as an "Extraction Machine" - a system in which dysfunction itself has become economically and politically profitable.

Using the central metaphor of a leaking roof, the manuscript argues that Sierra Leone has spent decades managing symptoms rather than repairing structural failures. Governments change, slogans evolve, infrastructure projects appear and disappear, but the underlying systems of extraction, patronage, dependency, and institutional weakness remain largely intact.