It is easy enough to find absurdities in any list of formal awards–e.g., Pearl Buck and William Golding won the Nobel Prize, while Tolstoy, Joyce, and Proust did not–but, with the Oscars, absurdity has been more the rule than the exception. Yet the Gambia Press Union has decided that what[Read More…]
Year: 2019
Two Ghanaian journalists arrested and interrogated, one allegedly tortured in custody
Ghana’s Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice should immediately launch an independent investigation into the arrests of Modern Ghana editor Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri and reporter Emmanuel Yeboah Britwum and security forces’ alleged torture of Ajarfor, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On[Read More…]
The Diary: The Journalist And The Dictator Part One
“If a man like Deyda Hydara can be murdered for doing his job, then no one can sleep peacefully in his or her bed. Nobody will be spared” -Says Alagi Yorro Jallow. Alagi Yorro Jallow On February 2, 2003, police in my hometown of Jarra Sankwia in The Gambia during[Read More…]
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