When it comes to corruption in Africa—especially in today’s modern Gambia and the previous regimes—the interest of the political class is always aligned with the primitive mentality of “it’s our time to eat,” with politicians and senior government officials either collectively or individually stealing from the State or cutting business[Read More…]
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US Is Punishing Rwanda For Rejecting Old Jeans, T-shirts
Rwandans would like to wean themselves from American hand-me-downs, and the United States wants to punish them for it. Last week, the Trump administration suspended duty-free access to U.S. markets for Rwandan clothing. This may sound like inconsequential news, compared with the prospect of a trade war with China, the[Read More…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: Restraining The Overzealous
“Freedom cannot endure unless every generation restates and reemphasizes its value” Friedrich von Hayek ‘Every State is known by the rights that it maintains. Our method of judging its character lies, above all, in the contribution that it makes to the substance of man’s happiness’, Harold J. Laski in his[Read More…]
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