11 Questions: filmmaker Robert Sesay

Robert Sesay

Robert Sesay is a Liberian film maker and writer. His recent film was screened in Philadelphia and did see a successful red carpet premiere in the Greater Philadelphia Area. He is also an author. His debut novel Stolen is still a hot seller on Amazon.com. He is writing another novel “The Wild Geese” which is soon to be published. According to information gathered, Robert Sesay is also working on his second film project: “Deadly Affliction” which is due out in December to much anticipation.

1. Who is Robert Sesay and why should anybody want to see your films?

That's a loaded a question. I am a Liberian born writer and film maker and I currently reside in Bristol Pennsylvania.  I would say my films are made for the larger audience and are about everyday people. My last film was a romantic comedy FROZEN LIES which examines the love lives of several characters. Because the film was so attractive to crossed section of people, it got raves review. The film asked and answered questions of insecurity of love and the drive to get it right at all cost.

Nigeria escapes ambush in Liberia!

Tonia Tisdell seeks ball control

                                      

By: ralph geeplay

Liberia Lone Stars went on all cylinders on September 8th as they took on the fancied Super Eagles of Nigeria in the Afcons qualifications slated for South Africa next year in Monrovia. The Liberian trio of Tonia Tisdell, Sekou Oliseh Jabateh and Zah Kranger prove too much for the Eagles to handle.

The fight for Africa

By ralph geeplay

 Liberian kids welcome Hu Jintao to Monrovia

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recent Africa tour which ran for 11 days if anything, indicated a major showmanship that Washington is determined to assert or reassert itself on the continent, after a lackluster Obama first term that put forward no real Africa agenda. Don’t forget America had extensive connections on the continent, especially at the height of the cold war.

The Boss Lady: The Elegant Ms. Barkue Tubman

Entertainment impresario and Liberian business magnate, Miss Barkue Tubman who returned to her native Liberia in 2005 is a known trailblazer in the entertainment industry, achieving incredible triumph in the United States while cracking the glass ceiling especially as a young woman in a field normally reserved for male executives. Barkue is a gem, and it seems everything she touches turn to gold. Simple as that may seem and sound though; she has been described as a workaholic and an innovator whose drive to succeed and efforts at making enduring deals, contacts and keeping them are qualities that define some her capabilities.

 

Upon her return home few years ago, Tubman who is also the CEO of the Miss Boss Lady Entertainment and other holdings told the British Broadcasting Corporation last year, that getting started in Liberia wasn’t an easy one “I didn’t  really know what I was gonna do initially, but Liberia was a virgin market even back then so anything I wanted to do, as far as I was concerned, with the gifts that I had been blessed with, I knew I would turn it around because I know the strength that I have," she told the BBC's series African Dream.

Mary Broh’s apology wasn’t about apology!

By ralph geeplay

The Lord Mayor of the City of Monrovia, Madame Mary Broh finally appeared before the Liberian Senate few days ago and delivered the apology they long sought. It seems the legislators have been begging for the apology as if some how to legalize and validate their importance, what else can I say. Incensed, that the Lord Mayor of Monrovia ignored several attempts to appear before the senate in a matter that had all to do with the judiciary and the courts, it threw to the window shamefully the republican form of government that oversees Liberia’s political governance when they declared a Vote of No Confidence in Madame Broh, as if Liberia has a parliamentary form of government, guys we're not!

Liberia Lone Star fades in Dakar

By: ralph geeplay

Skipper Francis Doe

Liberia squandered an early lead in Dakar on Saturday June 2, 2012 when Senegal came from behind to win their opening World Cup qualifier 3-1 against the Lone Star.  Francis Forkey Doe’s (Terengganu FC, Malaysia) second minute target was the only effort at goal that Liberia recorded in the FIFA 2014 World Cup qualifier against the Teranga Lions. Attacking to erase the Liberians early goal, Senegal fought back at the Leopold Sedar Senghor Stadium in their back yard, wrestling the the lead away.

Africans anxiously awaits the Taylor’s verdict

By ralph geeplay

Former Liberian president Charles Ghankay Macarthur Taylor, who was elected president in 1998 after a long ‘bush war’ which began in Liberia’s Nimba County on Christmas Eve in 1989, will face justice this Thursday in the Netherlands. He is the first African president to be tried on a continent where leaders like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, and Sudan’s Oman al Bashir plus countless other despots still enjoy state power as they terrorize their own people. Matter of fact, Bashir has been indicted, but he still eludes justice. If Taylor is acquitted jitters could run throughout West Africa, where the former Liberian president is accused of trading arms for minerals, especially diamonds in Sierra Leone. Flushed with cash from Liberia’s timber and its resources, he meddled and also exported his war to Liberia’s neighbors: Guinea and Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. His war in Liberia saw almost 300 thousand Liberians dead, from a pre war population of 3.5 million and hundreds of West African peace keepers (Ecomog) killed under Nigerian command.

 

Taylor, at the peak of power

Let’s remember April 12, 1980

By ralph geeplay

 

This week, Liberians remember April 12, 1980. It is hard to comment on the events that preceded the day and the aftermath of the military overthrow without raw emotions being in the mix. A day when some Liberians trooped to the streets to dance while a segment of the population was mourning. 

A Mail for Mali

By: ralph geeplay

The March 22, seizure of power in Bamako, the Malian capital, was just one more rude awakening that the men in military uniforms in the world’s least develop continent are still thirsty for political power. And Mali, the Western African landlocked country is its latest poster child. It is hard to understand why the coup took place in the first place?! If the main complaint of the army and reason for aborting a democratic government is that it neglected the army and its needs, to waged an all out war against insurgents from the north, then the army has done virtually nothing since coming to power a fortnight ago to take control and beat back the  revolt. The army since seizing control has done a dismal job. The fact that must be laid bare is that the Malian army lacked the guts and fighting spirit to take on the rebels, weapons aside. Since they came to power almost half of the country has fallen to the Islamic radicals in the north, all of this, in less then three weeks.

Hire this man for the Lone Star job!

By ralph geeplay

 

Coach Huh Jung-Moo

This week, The Liberian national team the Lone star went on a shopping spree for a foreign coach. The Liberian Football Association is making it clear, it intends to hire a foreign coach, even though, several foreign coaches it hired in the past four years show nothing for the huge salaries, benefits and bonuses they collected

Negbalee Warner throws a gauntlet!

 By: ralph geeplay

This week, the former Board Chair of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company, Negbalee Warner took his case to the public in a press conference he called to give reasons why he left his lucrative more than 4.000 dollars job. Warner, a prominent Liberian lawyer is also the former Head of Secretariat of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI). His recent press conference has received the buzz in the media, because reports say he has credibility, and his revelations if proven right could help President Sirleaf's drive to root out corruption in govt.