I think the allegation that the APRC loyalists are out to sabotage the new government is 100% true. We have people in the system who make it their duty to undermine the Barrow government without any reasonable justification. These government officials have their collaborators outside the system. One of […]
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Your Excellency, It is Time to Reflect!
It It has been four months since our fateful presidential election in December and what a four-month period it has been! Our transition has been anything but smooth and peaceful. If we are to call a transition that took place only after the intervention of a regional military force peaceful […]
Ambassador-at-large In Practice
By Omar Alieu Touray President Barrow’s recent appointment of various personalities as Ambassadors-at-large has drawn attention to a category of officials that, in the Gambian context, remains unknown to the general public. As a result, a number of questions have been raised, ranging from their suitability for the positions to […]
Identity Politics Is HATE Personified! (No To Tribalism)
Identity Politics is HATE Personified! (No to Tribalism) Alagi Yorro Jallow “When you are running for your life from a lion, you don’t stop for a minute to look back and see what color of a lion had been chasing you. You just run forward as fast as you can for your […]
APRC – A Full Fledged Violence Plotter
“The biggest espionage plot of the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction party (APRC) is inciting violence against the ruling government supporters. There are numerous wanted murderers and corrupt former APRC officials in America, England, Europe and Senegal. These criminals want to create an environment that will cause Gambians to physically […]
Gambia Needs Clear Strategic Goals
By Lamin Darboe, Leicester Michael Porter, a Harvard professor and one of the preeminent strategic thinkers of this century, argued in his renowned work on the competitiveness of nations that governments don’t create wealth but their proper role is to provide an enabling environment for businesses to flourish. “National prosperity […]
Classic Islam Skeptical About Separation Of Power
Nyancho, thanks for the robust theological defense proffered in terms of women and men’s equality with reference to Islamic doctrines. However, I must take exception to the criticism levelled against the doctrine of separation of powers. Indeed, classic Islam and Middle Eastern culture have always been skeptical about the idea […]
D.K Jawara’s Bad Students
By Saul Saidykhan In about two weeks, Gambians will be going to the polls to elect Representatives to the National Assembly. Sadly though, instead of focusing on what really matters, anywhere one turns to on Gambian social media, Gambians are attacking each other on an issue that is at worst, […]
The Blessed Gambia: A Way Forward
By Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh, Associate Professor of Islam and contemporary Studies at the Muslim College London, Researcher at the University of Dundee and London Islamic Cultural Centre The Gambia is a blessed nation endowed with great mercy, compassion, bounty and blessings of the Gracious Almighty God. What has transpired […]
Don’t Let Fake News Fake You Out!
Alagi Yorro Jallow Fake news is so real and so pervasive that it already rings disturbingly familiar. It’s the production and dissemination of false information meant to influence the direction of our Gambian life by deluding anyone unsuspecting enough to swallow it. To our thinking, it’s a matter of championing […]
Jow’s Statement Is Blasphemous
Rebuttal – Coach – Pa Samba Jow’s statement that; “religion has been the biggest problem of Africa because it has far too long subjugated and marginalised woman”. I want to begin by confessing the profound respect I have for my brother – Coach for his level of maturity and meticulous […]
Do Not Dismiss Zille’s Worldview
I have sensed widespread displeasure at the terse remarks of Madam Helen Zille [former leader of South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance] colonialism has ensured an independent judiciary, portable water and so on. I do, however, caution that we seem to be very over-sensitive. The Democratc Alliance does not have a […]