The story is told of an elderly woman and a younger one who were passing by a cemetery. On a tombstone was written the epitaph “Here lies John, a Politician and an Honest Man”. The elderly woman turned to her companion and, with consternation and opprobrium in her voice, said[Read More…]
Opinion
Remembering Ousman Koro Ceesay
By Sheriff Bojang If he had been born a son of Kombo like my native Brikama, they would have been called Jung. Jung indeed, although he did not live in the early 1900s or write a book called Dreams. Nor was the best known quote he left the world: “In[Read More…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: To My Fellow Men Deniers Of Rape Stories
Dear Fellow Man, ‘My silence was my protection. It was my protection from having to face the unthinkable. To speak the unspeakable. And questioning myself: why did I not speak out as a child? The child understands that perfectly, but as you moved to adulthood you realise that those who[Read More…]

