The Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, but the legacy of more than two decades of authoritarian rule has left its new democratically elected government with big challenges. The Gambia’s Finance Minister, Amadou Sanneh, began the daunting task of rebuilding its devastated economy only days after his release[Read More…]
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Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: When Right Holders Deride And Belittle Each Other
I miss my tapalapa but I stand with the bakers (not the bakery owners) “I disagree with all what you”, Voltaire shouted, “but I will defend to my death you right to say it”. This is supposed to be the true attitude of a democrat or a believer in human[Read More…]
Constitutional Review Commission: Lawyer Lamin Darbo Hits Back At Madi Jobarteh
He [Madi Jobarteh] is sentinel in the public space, a voice for the voiceless, a conscientious and progressive interrogator of government policy and official conduct on the big issues of the day. Even without the many prompts urging a response to his rejoinder on my contention that the Constitutional Review[Read More…]
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