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The night out for the North Star (Part 2)
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…
Conflicts of interests may worsen in The Gambia’s TRRC: Is anyone listening
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…
Gambia politico: When ‘Allah’s Bank’ becomes the ‘anonymous benefactor’
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…
A night out for the North Star
Swandi is back from the well, carrying a bucket to bath at his half-covered village ‘junkongho’. It was his second coming to the village life.
He is a schooled urban young man who was born in the village but left at six grade at the age…
‘Where were you?’: A derision or one of disappointment
Prof Ali Mazrui defined an intellectual as ‘a person who has the capacity to be fascinated by ideas and has acquired the skill to handle many of them effectively’. He also defined ‘intellectualism’ as ‘an engagement in the realm of ideas,…
TRRC update: Countdown to launching
At long last, a tentative date for the launching of the TRRC has been set. Following the end of the calls for nominations in the Greater Banjul Area and the Diaspora and the regional selection process, 11 names have been identified for…
Developing education requires a jailbreak
Mustapha K Darboe
My favourite dub poet Uncle Mutabaruka was once asked if he had ever been jail, agitated he appeared, and replied “I am still there trying to escape”.
For most of us, this is ridiculous because someone who is going…
The appointment of Alagie Barrow in the TRRC is legal and legitimate
The fact that ECOMIG forces entered the Gambia on 19 January 2017 and still maintain bases in our country is an indication that Gambian votes on 1 December 2016 did not remove Yaya Jammeh. What removed Yaya Jammeh was ECOWAS and its…
We are failing our children
The majority of Gambians are squarely pointing their fingers at the government in relation to the recent mass failure of our schooling system. Please, as intelligent citizens, let’s calm ourselves down and realise that the phenomenon of…
Requirements for President require the highest qualification
Final part by Madi Jobarteh
Simplifying the Idea and Clarifying its Misconceptions
1. There is already an academic eligibility requirement to stand for the Office of the President, i.e. Grade 12. Therefore, where a university degree…