By Muhammad Bai Drammeh My Gambian brothers and sisters, my fathers and my mothers, my uncles and aunts, my nephews and my nieces, my sons and my daughters, my grandfathers and my grandmothers; I am appealing to you to go out and vote for the sake of democracy. For all […]
Author: Suntou Touray
Dictator Jammeh Was An Understudy Of Jawara
By Suntou Touray Understanding an Enigma Jammeh deviated from Sir Dawda Jawara’s peace and love style of governance to become the biggest monster in Africa. The use of divide and rule, fear and open atrocities subdued the population. However, on a control level, he utilises the old fashion traditional politics. He betrayed […]
Embattled Gambian President Pleading For Vote At Night
Dictator Jammeh is not sick neither is he in hiding, he is pleading with North Bank elders at Night whilst staying in Farafeni. Understand how Jammeh works, do not fall for his clownish outlook. Diaspora needs to call their families and stop them feeling sorry for a killer who will […]
Educated Illiterates: Gambian Pseudo Intellectual Class
Knowledge is an ideal that is difficult to define. However, the attainment of education does expose the achiever to understand the reality of societies, which is not based on utopian idealism, or from the lens of fiction and with uncommon currency. Educated illiterates are a group of elites that have the tendency […]
Spit The Tobacco And Tell Us How Jammeh’s Fraud Works
Former Lt. Col. Lamin Gano has yet to say anything damning about Dictator Jammeh’s evil system! As the Mandinkas say, taba bon eeye tonya fo [tell plain truth and stop beating about the bush]. ‘If Jammeh does not fear elections, them he will not buy votes nor register foreigners. People […]
Accidental Enablers: Gambian Civil Servants And Security Officers
Your position is not a political appointment… Civil servants and security officers are not neither employed nor paid by the APRC. They work for Gambians in general. Civil servants need to educate their family members and tell them the plain truth. Many civil servants don’t vote for the APRC but […]
No Theocracy in Islam
By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh The extensive interest in Islam recently in the world, has occasionally caused confusion as a result of ignorance and misinformation. Distortions of the teachings of Islam through myopic lenses have resulted from negative passions. Therefore, the task of understanding Islam as lived and viewed traditionally […]
Letter to Yahya Jammeh, No. 3
By Foday Samateh In the wake of the mesmerizing heroics of Lawyer Darboe and his fellow freedom fighters, you couldn’t leave us alone. Like a mad fool terrified of being relegated to a mere afterthought, albeit an appalling one, you had to stomp upon the scene to distract our spellbinding […]
Another Hero in Africa’s Tragic Hall of Fame
By Dida Halake In Dying Like Biko, Solo Sandeng Frees a Nation Let the day be etched in the minds of Gambians and Friends of The Gambia everywhere. Thursday 14th April 2016: The day Solo Sandeng led some forty colleagues in a peaceful demonstration carrying nothing more dangerous than a […]
U.K Immigration Law Made Simple
By Lamin Darboe (Gambian legal Expert Explain) UDERSTANDING OUR RIGHTS AND DUTIES UNDER UK IMMIGRATION LAWS (The speech was delivered at the Gambia Association Coventry annual Independent celebration Lecture) The Immigration Act 2014 The Immigration Act has a profound impact on the lives of undocumented migrants. A person renting […]
Gambian Entertainers/Singers And Dictatorship
Close association versus fear and material gains. There have been lots of noise of late on the problem of Gambian singers. Prominent amongst them is Jaliba Kuyateh and other younger singers who praise Jammeh now and then. Although Jaliba Kuyateh is largely sidelined by President Jammeh and it is no […]
Happy 51 Gambian Independence
Music and Musicians were curial in uplifting Gambians and generating a sense of national pride Loving your country is part of solid faith! Why are Gambians not passionately Gambian? It is true our country is small It is true we don’t have natural resources like other African countries to […]