It is incredible that after fifty-five years as a nation, the Gambia still has not decided how our country should be run. However, at this age, one ought to have married, brought up your children, and started the journey into your life’s sunset, assured of a tangible legacy. As a[Read More…]
Opinion
Alagi Yorro Jallow: In Support Of Dr Katim Touray And Ernest Aubee’s Nomination To The AU Commission
Today, in recognition of the Gambia government’s obligation and commitment to supporting the African agenda nominating a representative from the Gambia to serve in a top position of the African Union Commission (AUC). The person’s nomination should be based more on international wheeling and dealing than just mere suitability and[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: What Is Behind The Dramatic Rise In 3-Generation of Corruption Unstoppable? (Part 1)
The Gambia needs a new caliber of political leadership at levels and pragmatic technocrats and public intellectuals with moral rectitude, a key to the Gambia’s success in combating the cankerworm of Corruption. The nation needs competent and honest politicians, a new elite of professionals, technocrats, and administrators who remain disciplined[Read More…]
Tribute To George F. Gomez: The Man Who Redefined Patriotism And Gentility
By Alagi Yorro Jallow I am shocked, ossified, and saddened by the passing of Mr. George F. Gomez in the prime of his retirement in public life and into his power of mentoring to dozens of aspiring leaders, journalists, sports administrators, and thinkers in addition to theorist to youth leadership[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Rise Of Girls Power In The World’s Largest Democracy
Professor Tracy Jill Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, are two extraordinary women, blessed by strong character, love, empathy for others, and willingness to serve to bring comfort and happiness to others, and help them find fulfillment. They prefer to see the good in others, bring out the best in them,[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: Power Over And Power Within
At the heart of most, if not all, relationships, interactions or struggle is “power” and the desire to “dominate” or control. But that is power which is external, which some person or group would want to exert on and over you. There is “power over” which is internal and if[Read More…]
DA Jawo: Coronavirus: The Gambia On The Brink?
There is no doubt that most Gambians appreciate President Barrow’s decision to finally come out of his “hiding” place and address the nation on the scary surge in the COVID 19 pandemic that Gambians and indeed all those who reside in this country are being confronted with. Even though there[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: Legacy: One We Neglect But Should Very Much Care About
No one reads his or her epitaph or hear the eulogies they say at his or her funeral. Someone said “be ashamed to die until you have done something for humankind”. How truer a statement. And it impels us if we really care, I think, to ask the questions: what[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: How Could Senator Kamala Harris Be The Most Powerful VP Ever?
The Democratic Party presumptive nominee, Joe Biden, has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate of for November 3, 2020, presidential election. However, this winning team also might be one of the most enlightened and creative political ploys of American history. A bicentennial celebration presided over by a white[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: Deciding Who Is Black And Who Belongs To What Tribe
Race matters. Ethnicity or tribe or whatever one chooses to call it also matters. However, defining who belongs to what race or what tribe can sometimes be complicated if a person comes from a mixed race or from mixed ethnicities. Some people, Tiger Woods comes to mind, struggle to identify[Read More…]
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