Sheka Tarawalie

Sheka Tarawalie is a Sierra Leonean journalist and writer, who is currently Sierra Leone State House Press Secretary to president Ernest Bai Koroma. He was appointed to the position in December 2007.

Tarawalie is a graduate of Fourah Bay College, and was one-time Editor-In-Chief of The Touch, a Freetown newspaper, where he criticised the then government of Sierra Leone. He moved to the United Kingdom and sought asylum because of threats against his life. When his asylum claim failed he launched a well-supported appeal against deportation. He worked as a journalist in a voluntary capacity, eventually becoming sub-editor of Expotimes, and board member of the Exiled Journalists' Network, UK.

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