Reputation Poll International, a global reputation-management firm, yesterday, released its 2020 list of 100 Most Reputable Africans – and three Gambians – Fatou Bom Bensouda, Isatou Alwar Graham and Lamin Momodou Manneh – are featured. The long-awaited list features 47 women and 53 men from diverse areas of work ranging[Read More…]
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Alagi Saidy-Barrow: Navigating The Complexities
So someone sent me a message because they are unhappy that I liked a particular comment that was made on a post I wrote. This person feels that the comment is negative towards a group he belongs to and I should not have liked it because that denotes support for[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Time To Act Is Now
The state of insecurity in the Gambia is very grave. Very dire and frightful. Our citizens are not safe. Both the people and the government know this, and we are losing live and properties. We are losing our humanity. Why do partisans engage in deliberate falsehood in the face of[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Struggle To Buy Tobaski Ram In Gambia
This year’s Tobaski (Eid-ul Adha) is Friday.) It’s a festival of sacrifice and feasts for almost all Muslims. The majority of Gambian Muslims struggled or are still struggling with rage to buy common rams for the Tobaski celebration. Capitalist or elite greed breeds mass poverty, which tears the moral fabric[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: The Gambian Police Have Got More Questions To Answer
Human beings in general don’t like anything that puts them in an unfavorable light. And generally, when faced with anything we deem a threat to our reputation or freedom, we often revert to our instinct of survival first. If the threat is an accusation against us, our survival instinct is[Read More…]
Chinese Ambassador Admires Gambia’s Fight Against COVID-19
The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in The Gambia, Ma Jianchun has said that his country admires the vigour and high spirits with which The Gambia continues to fight against the Covid 19 pandemic. Speaking at the handing over ceremony of new batch of medical supplies and sewing[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: Power And Control
There is nothing happening in The Gambia today that hasn’t happened before. Corruption, police brutality and general inertia in the face of it all, are nothing new! The question is what have we learned from our recent history as a nation? Are we going to transform our systems (including those[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: Does Mother Gambia Suffer Because She Has So Few Lovers?
Patriotism is not based on what your last name is or how long your ancestors have dwelled in a country. And because you’re part of the majority or minority of any group setting, does not make you any more or any less patriotic than anyone else. Lineage surely does not[Read More…]
Neutrality Or Indifference: Our Universal Evil
All that the perpetrator wants you to do is: to see no evil, talk no evil, hear no evil. He wants you to show “solidarity” by shouting “innocent until proven guilty”. He wants you to shame the victim, question her morality or chastity, blame her for the abuse, make her[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Mai Fatty Blames Lack Of Strong Leadership For Infection Surge
An opposition leader in the Gambia has attributed the alarming increase of Covid-19 cases in the small West African nation to lack of political will and lacklustre implementation regime of health guidelines. Mai Ahmad Fatty of the Gambia Moral Congress (GMC) said while the country’s Ministry of Health has some[Read More…]
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