The homophobic strand that is currently woven throughout Africa reveals a certain level of contradiction and hypocrisy on the part of our political leaders who state that they are trying to uphold African values and cultures by criminalizing alternative sexualities. But at the same time, LGBT rights in the Gambia[Read More…]

Introduction ‘The Gambia We Want’ is a nationwide campaign that TANGO has launched as a self-conscious realization that unless citizens take ownership and leadership in the affairs of the nation, the dream of a democratic and developed Gambia shall be nothing but a fleeting dream; to be pursued but never[Read More…]

He threw up his hands in the air, and in exasperation and utter disappointment with my human rights this, human rights that pontification, he threw his salvos of questions: “We do not eat human rights. What is human rights to people who are struggling on a shoe string, living in[Read More…]