So to be considered an accomplished elite, one has to be on a sisyphean journey to be the like the Tubab because that is the key to admiration and respect. You do not get respect or admiration by loading or unloading rice while the elite celebrate their accomplishments on[Read More…]

Almost 35 days after declaring public emergency and partially locking-down The Gambia on 17 March 2020, the Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has finally rudely awakened to the plight of the Gambian people – after attracting barrage of criticisms for his seeming indifference to their plight, in confronting the challenges of[Read More…]

“Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth” Archimedes  Just that: a lever and a place to stand. Just the tools and a little opportunity. Nothing more. “Our youth are lazy” is probably one of the oft-quoted, moth eaten, commonplace cliches we parrot[Read More…]