Police in the Gambia have arrested a woman who was filmed whacking her 8-year-old niece with a wooden pestle. Adama Jarju, 30, of Lamin Kerewan, Kombos North, was arrested Monday after a video of her hitting her niece with a pestle was posted on social media. It is not clear[Read More…]
Year: 2021
Madi Jobarteh: IGP Must Protect And Not Deny Rights
The IGP Abdoulie Sanyang must realise that he is not the King of The Gambia nor the General Counsel of citizens such that he arrogates to himself the authority to advise how citizens should express their concerns and grievances. This letter here from his office is indeed unlawful, arrogant and[Read More…]
A Celebrated Virtuoso On An Instrument She Wasn’t Meant To Play
Manchester, England — When Sona Jobarteh, one of The Gambian’s most famous musicians, plucks the strings with his index finger and thumb, the airy sound of the centuries-old West African instrument Kora echoes. rice field. Under the purple stage lights of the Manchester International Festival in July — her first[Read More…]
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