You don’t have to be a feminist to speak out against violence, injustice, abuse women face; just love justice and human rights You don’t have to be a feminist to recognise, and fight or speak against, violence against women. All what is needed is for you to believe sincerely in[Read More…]
Opinion
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia: Justice Minister Is Not A Worthy Recipient Of Press Hero Award
It is easy enough to find absurdities in any list of formal awards–e.g., Pearl Buck and William Golding won the Nobel Prize, while Tolstoy, Joyce, and Proust did not–but, with the Oscars, absurdity has been more the rule than the exception. Yet the Gambia Press Union has decided that what[Read More…]
The Diary: The Journalist And The Dictator Part One
“If a man like Deyda Hydara can be murdered for doing his job, then no one can sleep peacefully in his or her bed. Nobody will be spared” -Says Alagi Yorro Jallow. Alagi Yorro Jallow On February 2, 2003, police in my hometown of Jarra Sankwia in The Gambia during[Read More…]