When you hear literacy rates, what comes to your mind? Something along the lines of those who can read and write right? And those who can read and write are often those of us who claim to read and write in English or French or even Arabic. When you talk[Read More…]
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Njundu Drammeh: Let’s Engage In A Serious National Conversation
This our society must engage in serious conversation with itself, a special kind of soul searching or ‘introspective retrospection’, both about its present and future, about what society it really wants to build and what the building blocks must be. This conversation must be very serious, engaging, honest, truthful, candid,[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia’s Human Rights Commission On The Brink Of Plummeting Into The Abyss
I do not say this often, but I hope I am wrong. Our National Human Rights Commission deserves better than the feckless political leadership. They have been undermining the mandate of the commission, and Gambians decry ” selectivity Agenda” and work method of NHRC in addressing human rights concerns and[Read More…]