Opinion and Essay

One of Gambia’s leading historians, Dembo Fatty, has done an amazing research on the ancestry of country’s former president Yahya Jammeh that strongly suggested he may have descended from the rulers of Baddibou Illiasa. Jammeh himself…

By Omar Janneh The appointment of Mr Essa M Faal as the lead counsel to The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission is welcome. From what was reported as well as from private research, Mr. Faal is a very good choice for…

By Njundou Drammeh Dear President Barrow, On 1st December 2016, we ‘made a tryst with destiny’ and woke up to a life and freedom. We threw away the shackles of oppression, impunity, dictatorship, human rights violations and untold…

First of all, Abdoulie Saine insulted himself. He has shown to the Gambian nation that he is a hateful, ignorant and immoral man. This is because among the ‘Sosseh-yi’ Abdoulie has friends, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, colleagues and…

By Baba Galleh Jallow Dreaming is for many of us a scary prospect. Not dreaming of the sleeping sort, which is totally involuntary and therefore easy; but dreaming of the thinking sort that seeks to find solutions to collective social…

Njundou Drammeh, a child rights activist and a social commentator The SSHFC saga or rather phony war.... From what I have read on Facebook and heard from interviews by Manjang, Camara and others, I am tempted to ask "whose interest is…

If indeed Pres. Adama Barrow knew that you were not in town and did not take part in the decision to pardon a pedophile and still went ahead to approve the decision to pardon this pedophile then resign! Don’t be part of a corrupt and…

Mustapha K Darboe is an award-winning Gambian journalist and senior reporter at Kerr Fatou who also writes for Anadolu Agency To be born anti-social is a peculiarity that takes most people to the grave. Swandi and Nakaddy however feel…

Dr. Omar Janneh The Gambia’s TRRC seems to be turning into a conflicted Commission because the Executive seems totally determined to continue to display total disregard to even the problematic TRRC Act, 2017 they constructed. We are…

By Yankuba Darboe The Government Spokesperson, Ebrima G Sankareh, claimed that his Press Release of 19 August 2018, was supposedly aimed at alleviating our burden of propping or propagating unsubstantiated claims, and to clarify the…