As a country or a people, have we for once pondered over the following questions? How accessible and friendly are our public institutions and indispensable private establishments to the physically challenged or the differently abled members of society? Do our schools, health facilities, banks, etc. cater for some of us[Read More…]
Year: 2018
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: President Barrow: Second Term Is No Birthright
In the Chinua Achebe book, No longer at ease, Obi Okonkwo, the main character in the book, describes real tragedy as misfortune that is never resolved, it goes on hopelessly forever. In the Gambia, on everyone’s lips seem to be going through real tragedy in several fronts. Gambian politics and[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Barrow Asking For A Second Term Would Be “Unpardonable Evil”
In his very private moments, what does President Adama Barrow think of us? Asking for second term: Are we his lovers because we agree with Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, who said love is blind? Or are we Barrow’s fools because fools don’t see what their[Read More…]