Opinion and Essay

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…

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…

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,…

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…