I don’t know why the sight of a he- goat visiting inside the wolves’ den reminds me of my grandmother. Whenever a hen she was raising pecked inside her cooking pots, my grandma would shriek and scream: why is this hen in a hurry to inspect its final resting place?[Read More…]
Opinion
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Julius Caesar Has Disciples In The Gambia
Alaji Mamudu: Julius Caesar was/is an exciting character, in history and in fiction. The historical Julius Caesar was a man of power. He was very unequivocal about where he stood on matters of law and power. He willfully subdued law for power, prescribing to his subjects: “If you must break[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Remembering Thomas Sankara: Three Decades Ago: The Upright Man
Where did all the genuine African revolutionaries go? They were either assassinated; Patrice Lumumba, Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Machel, Amilcar Cabral, Steve Biko, John Garang, Julius Nyerere, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Frank Fanon, Muammar Gadaffi or fell under siege from their own legacies. It has been decades since we saw a visionary leader who inspired the Pan African idealism of[Read More…]
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