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 […]
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FAO’s Phraseologies Of World Food Day
On Thursday, October 16, 2014, director general of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Mr. Jose Graziano da Silva, released a statement to mark World Food Day, as has been the tradition since the days of his Senegalese born predecessor Dr. Jacques Diouf. According to Gambian dictator-owned Daily Observer newspaper, the FAO boss said “In […]
Darboe Blasts APRC National Mobiliser
‘Colley Is An Uninformed Noisemaker’ The leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has blamed the national mobilizer of the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC) for not being abreast with the Gambia’s history. Lawyer Ousainou Darboe described Yankuba Collry as an uninformed noisemaker. Mr. Darboe […]
Military Seizes Power In Burkina Faso
The military in the West African nation of Burkina Faso seized control of the government on Thursday and set a dusk-to-dawn curfew in what one general described as an effort to protect lives and restore order. Unrest has gripped Burkina Faso — a key ally for the West in the […]
‘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 […]
Lampesuda: Soul Searching Questions
Culled from The Executive Lampedusa – the name of an island between Tunisia and Sicily, Italy, – has become the symbol for a human tragedy. One year ago, on 3 October 2013, 366 refugees from Africa and the Middle East drowned there in the Mediterranean seeking a life without war, […]
‘Gambia Must Heed To UN Warning’
Gambian authorities have been warned to heed to the United Nations warning on improving their country’s deteriorating human rights situation. The warning is contained in a press statement issued by Amnesty International (AI) in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday. It followed the country’s human rights scrutiny the same day. “This morning, […]
Re-Propaganda Blunder
By Janko Camara Our common mistake as Gambians is to expect the entire world to be interested in a tiny and resources-starved Gambia. Suntou, your article was very clear and well argued. I don’t think anyone else could have said it any better. I am, however, tempted to react to […]
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 […]
APRC Has Been Systematically Marginalizing Gambian Christians
By Lawrence Jabang Kindness and weakness are never the same and will never be the same. Unfortunately, they are too often confused. It’s a known fact that there is always comes a time when each would need to paddle his/her own canoe. Therefore, it is long overdue for Gambian Christians […]
Fatou Jaw Manneh’s Speech At Oslo Freedom Forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7sPSi58ko8 Maafanta Proprietor and Publisher spoke at a recent Freedom Forum held in the Norwegian capital Oslo. Madam Fatou Jaw Manneh provided an account of her arrest, detention and subsequent prosecution by the Gambia’s dictatorial regime a few years ago. She explained the harrowing details of what happened to […]
Propaganda Blunder By Our Diaspora Activists
Unless we live in reality, we will continue to crave darkness claiming to be looking for solutions to our country’s political problem, which has become the root cause of all our problems. We have to understand the reality that President Jammeh has not been in power for 20 years due […]