Today is International Women’s Day. I join not in the celebration but in the reflection, for our mothers, sisters, wives, aunts and daughters should be celebrated everyday. Without mummy’s sacrifice, wife’s leadership in the household, aunty’s hard work at the naako and farroo, sister’s trailblazing role in administration, business and[Read More…]
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New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Happy Women’s Day
On this wonderful day I say a Happy Women’s Day to all the women of the Gambia and women around the world. Special mention goes to my daughter, my wife and my mother. We celebrate the women in our lives. They are the cornerstones of our communities working tirelessly and[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Captain Thomas Sankara Taught How To Be Feminist?
No one can read the works and words of Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara and fail to conclude that the late president of Burkina Faso was a certifiable feminist. From his unmistakable ode to women “Women’s Liberation the African freedom struggle” to the collection of his speeches “We are Heirs of[Read More…]
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