You don’t like Trump? Well, I don’t either. But think about why you don’t like Trump and his base supporters. Would you like Trump or Hitler if you found out you share similar thoughts? Let’s see. Here are a few things a lot of us don’t like about Trump and[Read More…]
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Alagi Yorro Jallow: Imam Baba Leigh Embraces And Fantasizes Homosexuality In Gambia
Baba Leigh Must Not Touch on National public policy and His Imamship Should be Revoked To poison a nation, poison its stories and narratives. A demoralized nation tells demoralized stories and narratives of its identity. Anything that affects our perception of the world usually comes in the form of stories[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: I Am A Sinner
Am a sinner seeking forgiveness of Allah all the time. Let she or he who has never committed any of these sins comment here. Thirty-three of the gravest sins forbidden by Islam ( there are many others not listed here though). 1. Associating partners with Allah (shirk): 2. Committing murder:[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Boris Johnson’s ‘Anti-Africa’ Past Resurfaces
Alexander Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, was angry that Black Lives Matter protesters tampered with Winston Churchill’s statue following a global protest against police bestiality and police brutality against black people as endemic structural racism in America and Europe following the murder of George Floyd. A[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: I Stand With Imam Baba Leigh
To those attacking Imam Baba Leigh, I personally will pick him to lead me in prayers over you and your imams any day, any time and anywhere. You may be more knowledgeable but for me, Knowledge without action is of no use. And when it came to taking action against[Read More…]
Gambia Launches Business Environment Reform Programme
The National Business Council, chaired by His Excellency President Adama Barrow on June 12 2020, launched the Business Environment Reform programme at a meeting held at the State House. This council, comprising pertinent government ministries and representatives of the private sector operators was launched in response to the National Development[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: Manufactured Love: My Husband And I
I sit there thinking. Another wedding. Another contribution. Another Asobi. All my friends are married now even though only a few of them are genuinely happy in their marriage. My friend Ismaila always tells me the idea of marriage is not about a union of souls anymore, it’s about the[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Homosexuality Is Unacceptable
Homosexuality is illegal in the Gambia. Further, the Gambia is a God-fearing nation that places a significant premium on family, an institution derived from a union between two people of the opposite gender. Polemics aside, homosexuality is unacceptable. A few morally bankrupt celebrities, so-called human rights defenders, lawyers and imams,[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: I Challenge Pres. Barrow To Declare His Assets
Just as we ask, where did Yaya Jammeh get the money to build those massive buildings in Kanilai so also we ask from where did Adama Barrow get the money to build such massive structures in Mankamang Kunda? Yes, it is not strange to see African leaders immediately begin massive[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: “Inviting” African Americans To Africa
I hear some of our people telling African Americans to leave America if they are not wanted there. They ask African Americans to come back to Africa; their “home”! While I support pan-Africanism and its ideals, especially Marcus Garvey’s calls for a return to Africa, I’m also very realistic about[Read More…]