Africa is noted for marking each occasion with a fanfare of musical and traditional jamboree. Suffice it to say, each music or dance celebrates and showcases its cultural uniqueness and way of life. The Gambia is no exception to such carnivals. However, what distinguishes her from the rest of other […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
Gays Exist In Ancestral Africa
Mr. Laye: “Even in ancestral Africa, homosexuality did exist … there is no evidence whatsoever that gays as a group were persecuted in pre-colonial Africa”. Halake says: “Absolutely, Kalil. We have always been a civilised and tolerant people – until the imperialists interfered! The “tolerance” of homosexuals in Africa that […]
Media Leaks Anger CORDEG
The newly elected Executive of the Committee for the Restoration of Democratic to the Gambia (CORDEG) has angrily reacted to the leakage of its foundation document(s), describing it as “a gross breach of trust.” In a press dispatch, CORDEG fell short of naming any online media for the leakage. “As […]
Please Stop The Gay Debate!
Discuss Solving Hunger, Ill-Governance, Poverty… By Gambiano When you happily sport your new pair of shoes in the Streets of Serrekunda, Brikama, Basse, etc., only to painfully wash off the dust or mud it courts, is it the gay topic that charges at your thoughts that moment? When your […]
Kairo Features Accomplished Gambian
Kairo Radio will inaugurate a new program aimed at featuring accomplished and distinguished Gambians. The maiden program kicks off on Sunday 5 PM Easter time , with the former Lt. Col. Pa Modou Ann setting the ball rolling with Mohammed Lamin Sillah. The goals of the new program, Talking Point, […]
‘Don't Allow Others To Define You’
Children of Gambian descent have been advised to define themselves instead of allowing others to do so. The advice was contained in a speech delivered by a distinguished Gambian professor in the United Kingdom. Dr Momodou Sallah, the award-winning educator of De-Montford University, has had huge experience in youth engagement […]
Lumumba, Mandela and Africa’s Next Strategy
January 2014 marked the 50th commemoration of the assassination of Patrice Emery Lumumba. Lumumba was one of the greatest forces behind the wrestling of Independence from the unwilling hands of Belgian colonizers of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Africa’s most celebrated freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela exited this realm at the […]
Disappeared Americans In Spotlight
They were best friends in high school and came to America together to attend the University of Washington in Seattle. Alhaji Mamut Ceesay and Ebou Jobe are from The Gambia in Western Africa, and after more than a decade working in the states, and naturalizing as U.S. citizens, they decided […]
Crisis Engulfs St. Augustine’s
One of the Gambia’s oldest and best performing senior secondary schools has found itself mired in financial crisis to the extent of not paying staff salaries. The school’s teachers are planning a sit-down strike if their demands have not been met. For so many years, St. Augustine’s Senior Secondary School […]
'Intellectuals Disrespect Our Cultures'
By Saiks Samateh If any, it is the African intellectuals who have many a times disrespected African values and intellectualism, not knowing your history can at that same time render useless in the face of time.To argue that Gay and Lesbian acceptance is western values clearly indicates here that one […]
CORDEG Damns UDP Crackdown
The Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in the Gambia (CORDEG) has condemned a recent crackdown on opposition activists of the United Democratic Party (UDP). The UDP activists were arrested in Madiana village in Kombo South on February 12 while on a strategy session. CORDEG has come under criticism for […]
The Gay Debate across Africa
“They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind” By Dida Halake, London, UK Editor, I have been sent this bold statement from an African newspaper with a request to “comment”. “African leaders and same-sex relationships: the masses should not be diverted from the issues that affect their lives. … […]