I Am a Misfit No One Can Tame
Independence of thought and the refusal to be intellectually imprisoned by what everyone else expects a person to think, say or become.
Read More →Some questions are too important to remain unasked. Books, essays, conversations and reflections on leadership, justice, Africa, society and the people who live with the consequences of power.
Alpha Amadu Jalloh is presented here as a writer whose work spans books, essays, editorials and public commentary — on leadership, justice, inequality and the African experience.
Signature writings from the Essay Library — philosophical, political, social and deeply personal.
Independence of thought and the refusal to be intellectually imprisoned by what everyone else expects a person to think, say or become.
Read More →A move beyond politics into humanity — the connections, morality and dignity that bind ordinary people together.
Read More →Why questioning leadership is not hostility, but citizenship — and why democracy cannot flourish on listening alone.
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"I write about power, but I also write about people. I write about politics, but I also write about life. Some of these writings challenge authority. Others challenge society. Some challenge the reader. And sometimes, they challenge me."
His conversation with power — leadership, democracy and the citizen's right to question.
His examination of inequality and society — who prospers, and who is left outside.
The philosophical, personal and human dimensions of his writing — on relationships, dignity and belonging.
A direct conversation between the citizen and those entrusted with political authority — examining leadership, democracy, accountability and the right of ordinary people to question those who govern them.
Mr. President, Can We Talk? represents Alpha Amadu Jalloh's belief that questioning leadership is part of citizenship. Democracy cannot flourish where citizens are expected only to listen while those in authority do all the talking.
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Unveiling Sierra Leone's Social Imbalance — inequality, opportunity and who gets left outside.
View Book →An earlier, foundational work examining inequality and the social imbalances that determine who enjoys opportunity, influence, recognition and prosperity — and who remains outside the circles where privilege is concentrated.
Monopoly of Happiness invites readers to examine Sierra Leonean society beyond political slogans — asking difficult questions about inequality, fairness, opportunity and belonging.
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A Citizen's Conversation with Power — launched in Nairobi with Professor P. L. O. Lumumba.
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Every essay and editorial Alpha Amadu Jalloh has written, preserved in one place. Search by title, subject or year.
Alpha Amadu Jalloh writes from Sierra Leone about the questions many are too careful to ask out loud — about power, inequality, leadership and the everyday humanity that connects people across politics. His work spans books, essays, editorials and public commentary, united under one identity: The Misfit Voice.
At the center of Alpha's writing is a simple conviction: questioning leadership is not an act of hostility — it is part of citizenship. That belief runs through Mr. President, Can We Talk?, launched in Nairobi in August 2026 with Professor P. L. O. Lumumba officiating.
It was there before that book, too — in Monopoly of Happiness, his earlier examination of who in Sierra Leone gets to enjoy opportunity, and who is left outside it.
Essays like Everyone Is a Relative turn toward ordinary life — relationships, morality, dignity and the quiet things that connect strangers into something like family.
And in I Am a Misfit No One Can Tame, he turns the question on himself: what does it cost, and what does it earn, to refuse the shape everyone else expects you to take?
Holding power to the same standard it asks of citizens.
Naming who is included, and who has been left out.
Building the conditions for peace, not just its appearance.
Writing that treats every person's story as worth telling.
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Official launch of Mr. President, Can We Talk?, officiated by Professor P. L. O. Lumumba.
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