Human beings in general don’t like anything that puts them in an unfavorable light. And generally, when faced with anything we deem a threat to our reputation or freedom, we often revert to our instinct of survival first. If the threat is an accusation against us, our survival instinct is[Read More…]

There is nothing happening in The Gambia today that hasn’t happened before. Corruption, police brutality and general inertia in the face of it all, are nothing new! The question is what have we learned from our recent history as a nation? Are we going to transform our systems (including those[Read More…]

Patriotism is not based on what your last name is or how long your ancestors have dwelled in a country. And because you’re part of the majority or minority of any group setting, does not make you any more or any less patriotic than anyone else. Lineage surely does not[Read More…]

A hundred years from now, people are still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol in which larger social, economic, and political forces were condensed. As a person, Yahya Jammeh lived in a way to anticipate creating[Read More…]

When they came, they said they were soldiers with a difference. They said they were going to get things right and head back to the barracks. That was the first lie. Yaya JAMMEH said politics is dirty. He became a politician. Then slowly he began betraying every member of his[Read More…]

There are reasons to celebrate the “July 22 Revolution” and simply remember President Yahya Jammeh. This may be with national prayers in Churches and Mosques to heal and reconcile a divided and polarized nation, to move on from the whole aspect of nation-building, or to give it a more positive[Read More…]

The sore relationship that now exists between the Executive and the National Assembly does not seem to auger well for development in this country, and it is definitely not in anyone’s interest. It is only when all the three arms of government; the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary work in[Read More…]

They say that it takes a village to raise a child. However, to raise a dictator and groom him for more than two decades in national leadership? That takes a whole nation. It takes a whole nation to remember, but also a whole nation to forget. The struggle over memory[Read More…]