For Di People

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For Di People is a Krio-language daily newspaper from Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was started in 1983 by Paul Kamara, who has been its editor most of the time since then. The paper and its staff have faced threats and arrests over the years.

A notable case involved a seditious libel charge connected to claims about President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s 1968 fraud conviction, which critics said could prevent him from holding office. Kamara was arrested, offices were raided, equipment was seized—including his car—and the paper was shut for six months. On July 28, 2005, the paper’s editor who replaced Kamara, Harry Yansaneh, died from a beating reportedly ordered by a member of parliament, triggering international concern. Kamara won an appeal on November 30, 2005 and was freed. He later said imprisonment has not broken his spirit to publish the truth or stand for the people’s right to know.