Editor, I notice “Deyda Hydara” shedding tears over the Madi Jobarteh Nkrumah piece. I hope this short review from my book “Freedom Essays” will cheer him up! Luntango Suun Gann Gi Book Review Erica Powell & June Milne are two remarkable English women who were by Nkrumah’s side throughout his years […]

By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly  OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Pro-coup demonstrators in Burkina Faso on Sunday stormed a hotel due to host talks aimed at restoring a civilian interim government and attacked participants arriving for the meeting, witnesses said. Some of the protesters carried signs expressing support for a military […]

By Madi Jobarteh ‘Nkrumah battles Ghana’s neocolonialist intellectuals who were after their self-interest’ 18 September 2015 marks the 106th birthday of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana and the leading exponent for African unity in modern times. Following his studies in US and Britain, Nkrumah became a major organizer […]

  Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow, Lecturer Sainey Faye and Kebba Nyanchor Sanneh A series on the position and roles of Gambian intellectuals in the political struggle has kicked off on Kairo Radio. It is a topic that needs to be discussed, dissected and understood. What role intellectuals and academics have […]

By Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire  — The tag, ‘intellectual’ in reference to Africa refers to a certain type: western educated and visible in western media, maybe published in the West and maybe teaching at a western university. Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire writes to this type of African Intellectual. Kenyan writer and intellectual Ngugi […]

Dear Suntou, Thank you very much for your invitation to a critical dialogue. In your article titled The Godfathers: Fabakary Tombong Jatta et al. and published in Kairo News, you asserted that I am one of the Gambian scholars and academics who remains “… mute on the system we are […]

Immediate Release 14th September 2015 The Gambia Youth for Unity (GYU) movement is a conglomerate of youth efforts in the struggle to bring about democratic change in The Gambia.Over the past few months, we have held series of meetings that bordered around dialogue, unity and efforts towards harnessing the structures of theDiaspora […]

  Janko Camara Suntou, thanks for provoking this debate. I have a slightly different view on The Gambian “intellectuals” debate. Instead of focussing on those of our “intellectuals” who have been silently (but surely, with amusement) watching the daily drama in The Gambia over the last two decades, I think […]

Gambian People must STOP giving too much power to Jammeh When a minister approaches the president, it’s like he or she is going to meet a demi-GOD on earth. The Gambian military looks at the president as if he is an immortal demi-GOD not to contradict or check if he […]

By Abdoulie John Gambian opposition leader has expressed his resolve to take part in 2016 elections, and ruled out a possible election boycott by his party. “As far as we are concerned, the issue of boycotting is not on our table,” Hamat Bah of the National Reconciliation Party (NRP) assured. […]

By Deyda Haidara Those who think are the first in the struggle should lead the struggle are wrong. Those who think have insider knowledge of the Jammeh administration should lead the struggle are wrong. Those who think are connected to political parties in the Gambia should lead the struggle are wrong. […]