Today, we stand tall, proud, and free, thanks to our forefathers and mothers who risked their lives and all for the freedom you and I enjoy today. We always wondered what it is like to set off on a journey, having secured our freedom from an oppressive and abusive status[Read More…]

The Gambia’s political leadership is weighed in the balance and found wanting since the country gained independence in 1965. Without peaceful power alternation and presidential term limits for decades of political emancipation, The Gambia has had only three presidents, unlike in the United States, where ten presidents served for fifty-five[Read More…]

My July 22, 1994 day started as a normal sunny Friday morning with no indicator that Yundum Barracks, the main Gambia Nation Army (GNA) camp was engulfed in a rebellion. That soldiers had broken into the armory and seized the weapons there including the most sophisticated models to overthrow the[Read More…]