The public initiative
Salone Five C
The Five C Theory is the intellectual framework. Salone Five C is the community-facing conversation and participation initiative that helps people read, question, discuss, and act together.
The framework
The Five C Theory explains how culture, corruption, citizenship, contentment, and complacency can reinforce one another in public life.
The initiative
Salone Five C creates responsible ways for readers, students, communities, institutions, and diaspora groups to examine those patterns together.
Start with participation, not membership
Six practical ways to enter the conversation.
Community conversations
Structured local discussions grounded in evidence, responsibility, and practical public questions.
Reading circles
Small groups using the book, Reflection Guide, Discussion Guide, podcast, and video resources.
Youth and university dialogue
Carefully facilitated conversations about citizenship, institutions, leadership, and civic agency.
Diaspora engagement
A route for Sierra Leoneans abroad to connect resources, experience, responsibility, and partnership.
Civic workshops
Practical sessions that map a public problem through all Five Cs and identify a measurable point of interruption.
Selected partnerships
Collaboration with credible schools, universities, media, civic, professional, faith, and community organizations.
The public-question method
Move from a broad complaint to a question that can be preserved.
- ObserveWhat is happening, to whom, and how often?
- IdentifyWhich institution, rule, budget, office, or decision carries responsibility?
- DocumentWhat evidence, dates, records, costs, or responses can be preserved?
- AskWhat precise question requires a public answer?
- Follow throughWho will keep the question visible and record the response?
Evidence before accusation
Separate documented fact, lived experience, interpretation, allegation, and political opinion.
Standards before personalities
Apply the same civic expectation to allies, opponents, institutions, and ourselves.
Action without spectacle
Prefer measurable questions, shared responsibility, careful records, and sustained follow-through.
Development stage
No complex membership system is being launched.
The initiative will begin with events, email communication, free resources, reading circles, educator collaboration, and selected partnerships. Chapters, certification, membership, and an annual forum should follow only when participation demonstrates a real need.
Participation and partnership