The first in a series of National Development Dialogue on Nationhood has started in Freetown. The programme is facilitated by ENCISS (Enhancing the Interaction and Interface between the State and Civil Society to Improve Poor Peoples Lives) in collaboration with the Mass Communication Department of the University of Sierra Leone, UN Radio and community radios across the country. The programme will run from the 23^rd November 2008 to the end of February in 2009. Several topics that border on Sierra Leone political, legal and social landscape will feature prominently. These include, but are not limited to, citizenship, tolerance, political system, poverty and corruption.