Sheka Tarawalie

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