Gambia’s Open Defiance To UN Inspectors As Gambians, sometimes we feel as if our cries and tears are falling on deaf ears. The accounts that the activist, opposition politicians, journalist, commentators, media analysts and human rights organisation detailed about the Gambia, are rendered futile because the international diplomatic wheel continues […]
Society
Yahya: A Big Tree That Must Be Cut Down
Indisputable! The remaining questions: How do we chop down the tree? When do we chop down the big tree – before the start of new project or at the end or somewhere in-between? The answers to these questions are not simply what we wish but what we could, what’s feasible […]
Gambia Mourns Emblematic Caliph
Gambians are mourning the death of caliph general of the Hydara caliphate in Brufut in Kombo North. Sheriff Kebba Hydara, aged 92, died a fortnight ago. His death came as a great shock to many a Muslim and even non-Muslims in the Gambia and abroad. Many people described him as […]
Pay Day For Dictator Jammeh
By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands In shaa Allah we are almost at the end of the barbaric, cruel and brutal reigning of President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh. Like employees get their wages and salaries at the end of each pay-period, so is President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh and his bunch of criminals […]
History of Fishing Industry In Kombo
This video documentary is the work of the historical fact-finders of the University of the Gambia. It gives a detailed survey of how traditional fishing was conducted was conducted prior to the introduction of modern technology. It also explains the transformation and development of the Fishing Industry in Kombo. History […]
How Countries Bash Gambia In Geneva
Kairo News is today publishing the bashing of the Gambia by more than 62 member nations of the United Nations at the just concluded Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Switzerland. In that readers will see how the West African country has been a subject of fierce criticism by even countries […]
Imam Or Image-maker?
By Ebou Gaye Imam or Image-maker? I am fully convinced that you are well versed in Islamic Studies, But I very much doubt your sincerity as an Islamic scholar People ask whether you are really an Imam or an Image-maker, Based on your recent sermon which many of them see […]
African Leadership Studies: Beyond Theoretical Exceptionalism
Paper presented at the 16th Annual International Leadership Association Conference October 30 – November 2, 2014 / San Diego California Baba G. Jallow, Creighton University, babajallow@creighton.edu Some scholars de-contextualize Africa’s leadership and developmental crises by attributing them to the mistaken and untested assumption that Western theories and styles of leadership […]
President Jammeh Should Resign
By Siray Touray in UK As young Gambian youths, it is too disturbing for us to know Yahya Jammeh as the only president throughout our lifetime. It is about time that we call on President Jammeh to quit in peace. It is a disgrace and a lack of genuine patriotism […]
Halake Calls For Unity Gov’t If APRC Win
Daily News, Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Dear Candidate President, I had a dream about you an hour ago Mr. President. I had never dreamt about you before in all the time I have known you, but I have woken up out of a dream about you. I normally dream about […]
‘Trapped By Colonial Lyrics In A Post-colonial Dance’
The above words are those of Ms Mariama Khan in describing the ambiguous situation post-colonial nation states are faced with in positioning African endogenous values, including language policy, following the end of colonial rule. This concept and many other ideas of far reaching consequences for language policy and national development […]
One Man’s Dream For His University And Lamentations Of A Balding Professor
By Alhassan Darboe Recently on a boring Wednesday night, I decided to tune in to GRTS to keep up with happenings back home. It was good news! It was the inauguration of a three storey building for Gambia University medical school. I was impressed and captivated by one man’s tall […]