By Deyday Haidara “It is taking the Gambia 7560 days for a population of 1.8 million and no one still dares march to State House to chase Jammeh OUT.” I am nobody, am an ordinary Gambian citizen tired of fear rule and hopelessness. For the past 21 years Gambians were […]
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The Role Of African Intelligentsia & Intellectuals/”Class Struggle Revisited”
By Sainey Faye The role of the intelligentsia in the post Independent Africa is one that needs to be dissected, to better see how and why intellectuals behave the way they do; with regards to regimes and/or governments. Why a class of would supposedly highly educated workers join any train wagon, […]
Burkina Faso’s Interim President Back In Power
According to TVC a Nigerian news channel, Kafando is back in power. The involvement of the regular army paid off. Burkina Faso’s interim President Michel Kafando says he is back in power and had restored a civilian transitional government. “I have returned to work,” he said in a brief speech […]
Special Letter To President Jammeh
Mr. President, Can you tell me why your security officers are so slow and lazy that after so many years still they cannot find the detainees who were handcuffed and chained? What happens to your lazy agents of the NIA and stupid jungulers? Mr. President, do they need extra help to […]
You Are A Spin Doctor!
By Ebou Gaye You are a spin doctor! You have rubbished the recent HRW (Human Rights Watch) report on our beloved country, In your attempt to defend your master, Exposing your mercilessness, pitilessness and insensitivity to the ordeals and sufferings of your compatriots in the process You have judged the […]
Intellectuals And The African Condition
By Baba Galleh Jallow The African condition is desperate and ugly. African intellectuals know this. What are they doing about it? These old but perennially new realities were the recent subject of a series of articles and a panel discussion on Kairo News. One of the pieces published by Kairo […]
Nkrumah’s English Ladies
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 […]
Burkina Coup Leader Given Ultimatum
Burkina Faso’s army has given the coup leader an ltimatum to surrender or face an assault, as its troops reach the capital, Ouagadougou. Negotiations between army chiefs and the presidential guard have broken down, a senior military officer said. Troops are moving through the capital, as a 10:00 GMT deadline […]
Joint Burkina Faso Military Want Presidential Guards Out
The ultimatum is will soon reach a crescendo, who will blink, State Guards or regular Burkinabe army? The Burkina Faso revolution is taking on a new shape. As in Gambia, where President Jammeh relies on his trusted State Guards, who are armed to the teeth, with unprecedented powers, Burkina Faso […]
HRW Report Is All Tribalist Conspirasy; Jammeh Is A Democrat
This is what Sam Sarr, the new dictator Jammeh’s mouthpiece said about the Human Rights Watch findings. With all the people tortured, killed, exiled, wounded, disabled, Sam Sarr is hanging onto tribalism as the main reason people reject Yahya Jammeh. What a buffoon, self-serving fool! Read an excerpt from the […]
Gambian Gender Activists: Abortion Rights Ignore?
By Boto Sanneh Editor’s note: ‘A field trip narrative, very insightful and revealing’ “Individuals have argued that the anti-FGM position in the Gambia is not thoroughly researched, not well-thought out and formulated and somehow, too Eurocentric and foreign donor-driven.” Last month while on a brief visit home in Gambia, I […]
Burkina Faso Coup Supporters Attack Hotel Hosting Mediation Talks
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 […]