It is a Friday, Jummat prayers: Dear revered Imam. The lowly and the mighty fill your Mosque, in their Friday bests boubous or Kaftans – of other Fridays, to inhale faith, love, peace and hope. Is it Karl Marx who said ‘religion; is the opium of the masses’? Sitting prominently[Read More…]
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New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Political Blackmailer Is Satan Personified
Blackmail is the ultimate art of political survival. Political blackmail is the threat of -publication, or the actual publication, of true but more often invented stories with the aim of causing an opponent political damage, of slandering him or her, or of depriving him or her of the possibility of[Read More…]
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: The Reshuffled Cabinet Must Deliver!
A Cabinet reshuffle is not fanfare or a picnic. Anytime a sitting president or prime minister reshuffles his or her cabinet it is because that cabinet is not performing as expected or desired. Hence the president would reshuffle the cabinet by removing some members, bringing in new members and rotating[Read More…]
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