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Made of failure, bound to failure
By (pen name) Plaudits Kuajbi
Whoever owns the hand that is pulling the strings even if from behind the scenes, is definitely not a patriotic, kindly and conscientious fellow.
Our's today seems made of failure, laced with gluttony,…
TRRC holds first women’s listening circle
Unraveling the burden of truth in pursuit of reconciliation
By Rohey Samba Jallow of TRRC
An Intergenerational Listening Circle for Women.
They all came at their own volition in response to an invitation that took months to confirm. An…
Ensuring quality education: What must Gambia do?
The future of every society lies in the education and health of its children. Thus, the sustainable development of any nation and certainly the Gambia must be conceived in good leadership and fueled by the unparalleled commitment of the…
How Gambia’s former president may in fact carry a royal blood
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…
Dr Janneh on appointment of Essa M Faal as TRRC lead counsel
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…
It is a question of leadership, to be or not to be
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…
Abdoulie Saine must be charged for hate speech!
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…
Dare to dream
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…
The SSHFC sabre rattling: Whose right?
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…
My advice to Baa, resign if…
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…