“Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth” Archimedes Just that: a lever and a place to stand. Just the tools and a little opportunity. Nothing more. “Our youth are lazy” is probably one of the oft-quoted, moth eaten, commonplace cliches we parrot[Read More…]
Author: Jollofnews
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: In Response To Gambia’s Vice President (Part 1)
Amidst the opinions swirling around about the statement of our wonderful, caring and very educated VP regarding our “youths”, I think I have some opinions I’d like to disguise as questions. Let us assume that Gambians don’t like to engage in manual labor and let us also assume that this[Read More…]
Dr. Tijan M. Sallah: A Gambian Writer Of Consequence
By Dr Ebrima Ceesay, UK In the early nineties, while I was a reporter at the Daily Observer newspaper in the Gambia, I wrote a profile article, published in its 1 October 1993 issue titled, “The Poetic Dreams of Tijan M. Sallah” — on one of the Gambia’s most internationally famous and consequential writers since Dr. Lenrie[Read More…]