In December 2009 Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara published his autobiography ‘Kairaba’. In Chapter 21 – ‘Forging ahead to greater things,’ Sir Dawda hinted that indeed the Gambia was not independent on 18 February 1965, rather, as he acknowledges, “while we had a democratically elected parliament and government since independence (1965),[Read More…]
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Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: Petition To President Barrow
Dear Mr. President, ‘The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman thinks about the next generation.” James Freeman Clark Mr. President, I write you this letter, not knowing whether you will see or even read it. As a[Read More…]
Man Gets 60 Years For Killing Gambian Woman In Wisconsin
A judge in Wisconsin, USA, has handed a long jail term to a man who killed a Gambian woman and seriously wounded another woman at a home for disabled people, according to the Wisconsin State Journal Ali Hassan, 26, of Fitchburg, killed Fatoumatta Jallow, 23, in the home’s basement on[Read More…]
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