I learnt that the Gambia teachers are on a sit down strike as a mean of registering their grievances. It is in that note I write in solidarity with the teachers as per their low pay and the poor working environment. The teachers being the educators who gives us knowledge[Read More…]

Dear Saffiyoungba, Of late you have been ‘bombarding’ me with the question ‘Where were you during the 22 years of Jammeh rule?’ I was in The Gambia, hiding in Bakau. I saw all the braggadocio and hectoring exhibited by Yaya and heard about all his ungodly, inhuman, inhumane and blood curdling[Read More…]

President Adama Barrow has made press freedom a pillar of his reforms since taking power last year from Yahya Jammeh, whose authoritarian 22-year rule was marked by terror and dealt heavy blows to journalists, including arrests, nocturnal arson attacks on media houses, torture, forced exiled, intimidation, and killings of reporters.[Read More…]