The surprised winners in Kenya: Democracy, The Rule of law, the Independent Judiciary, the idea that grievances can be resolved nonviolently, that evidence matters, that the powerful can’t just write their own rules. The losers: Autocracy and Impunity for corruption (of course) but also, in a big way, the International[Read More…]
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New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Threat To Free Speech Persists
(JollofNews)- When someone says or writes something you consider hateful, or otherwise improper or offensive, you now may call the police. It’s because of hate speech laws. The police respond the same way they would if you report a purse snatching, a burglary, an assault or an attempted rape. The[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Politics Is A Blessed Vocation For Careerist Politicians In Gambia
(JollofNews)- In his famous 1918 lecture entitled Politics as a Vocation, Max Weber writes, “Politics, just as economic pursuits, may be a man’s avocation or his vocation. There are two ways of making politics one’s vocation: Either one lives ‘for’ politics or one lives ‘off’ politics. He who lives ‘for’[Read More…]
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