A hundred years from now, people still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol in which larger social, economic and political forces were condensed. As a person Yahya Jammeh lived in a way to anticipate his own[Read More…]
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Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: Pull Down This Billboard
This billboard has no national value. It has no connection to a constitutional presidential tour. It does not serve any national development agenda. It only mystifies the President. It is inimical to democracy and good governance. It’s a bad practice reminiscent of Yaya Jammeh and all poor and corrupt leaders.[Read More…]
New York LetterWith Alagi Yorro Jallow: Our Silence To Fight Dictatorship Promoted Jammeh’s 22 Rule
They say that it takes a village to raise a child. But to raise a dictator and groom him for more than two decades in national leadership? That takes a whole nation. It takes a whole nation to remember, but also a whole nation to forget. The struggle over memory[Read More…]