By Lang Fafa Dampha A Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in the South African style, in the Gambia today, a nation getting out of the jaws of autocracy and terrible human rights violations might face a lot of criticism from advocates of retributive justice and will surely be rejected by them […]
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The SIS And The Dire Need For New National Standards In The Gambia
By Saul Saidykhan We Gambians love our one line labels. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter if there’s any substance to them. Last week, President Barrow through executive fiat, changed the name of the notorious secret State outfit from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to State Intelligence Service (SIS). Understandably, the […]
African Leaders Must Save Africans Dying At Sea
When the colonizer was in the continent Africans upsurged demanding his departure. Now that he is long gone, children of Nkwame Nkuruma are busy risking it all to enter Europe, following him, looking for a better life. A life they said he had denied them while he was in Africa. […]
Not Politics As Usual
By Baba Galleh Jallow One of the reasons Yahya Jammeh lost the December 1st 2016 elections is that he misread the Gambian political situation. Like all dictators, he fell from power when he least expected it because he had been shielded from the reality of Gambian political culture for too […]
THE KING OF BECHUANALAND III: The Final Episode!
THE KING OF BECHUANALAND III: The Final Episode! Dr Karamo NM Sonko Heeno Occassional Postings, No. 12, February 10, 2017 Images and imaginations The human being regularly lives an imaginary life. We imagine things that do not exist, confusing ourselves by creating conflicts between what exists (the truth) and what […]
Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today?
Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today? Alagi Yorro Jallow While our democracy may not yet be strong enough and our institutions will constrain whatever abuses of power President Adama Barrow’s administration might commit during his three-year transition, but his policies and actions will not be as extreme as we me may […]
My Encounter With The “Butcher Kanilai”
A pervasive breeze of freedom graced the Gambian atmosphere from Sabi to Berending, it was like a parrot freed from a cage ushered into its natural habitat. Even if the cage was made of diamonds, that was immaterial as the value of freedom is unquantifiable. The butcher of Gambia is […]
A Farewell to Consensus
By Foday Samateh Now that the amateur wrestler from Kanilai is booted out of the State House, the fight for democracy in The Gambia takes a new meaning. It’s no longer a glorious struggle against autocracy. Rather, it morphs into the mundane task of establishing a culture of good governance […]
How Bakary Darboe Met His Death
The untimely death of a Gambian in New York has raised more questions than answers. But in this article culled from New York Daily News, it became clear that Bakary Darboe, an NYU lab technician, was a victim of shadowboxing. After prayer session was held for him at the weekend, […]
“Intellectual Astigmatism”
“Intellectual Astigmatism” Alagi Yorro Jallow Sometimes, self-criticism is necessary for us to make progress and what makes nations successful is the ability to find public policies and political institutions relevant to their people. Intellectualism and ideas are life; they must be relevant to our lives; they must be relevant to […]
Police Rounded Up Kidnappers Of Mahawa And Saul Ndow
Gambian police have in custody two men accused of luring Mahawa Cham and Saul Ndow into the trap of former President Yahya Jammeh. Cham [a former Kiang East National Assembly Member] and Saul Ndow [a Gambian businessman based in Ghana] lived queitly in Dakar until Lawu Jarju and Swandy Camara […]
Open Letter To Immigration PRO
Dear Mr. Manneh Immigration’s “legal action” against Star FM. The reported “legal action” against Star FM will be unwise and indeed unnecessary. The facts are as follows: Star FM reported that Sanna Manjang absconded the jurisdiction of The Gambia with false passports issued to him, presumably, by the Immigration Department. […]