Sene-Gambia needs to withdraw from every obligation in Africa and focus on a single and exclusive priority: declare a state of emergency on the issue of female skin bleaching. The Gambia and Senegal gave us Africa’s most famous celebration of the African female form and color in Senghor’s poem, “Black[Read More…]
Opinion
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: The They Problem And The Us Solution
Ask any Gambian and they will tell you what the problem is and those behind the problems we face in The Gambia. Corruption? We all know who the corrupt ones are. It’s just not us or our family members. It is the others. Hypocrisy? We know who the hypocrites[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Football Icon ‘s Biri Biri’s Death Reverberates Beyond Football
Shock and a stunned silence washed over the football universe Sunday as the tragic news spread that Alhagie Momodou Njie, known as Biri Biri, died. Athletes and fans, politicians, and celebrities alike struggled to process the death of an athletic icon whose impact and fame spanned sport and culture. I[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: It’s Still A Man’s World
It is still a man’s world or so we men make it so. From the menfolk to Lamin Bojang, the show of solidarity, of support, of excuse of action as aberration, of minimalism, of pontificating on morality while mindboggling is not surprising…. When it comes to issues of sex and[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: An Ode To A Gambian Policewoman
As dejecting as this picture may be to many of us, I am glad some of us choose to see beyond the ineptitude of our governments and instead focus on a gallant and dedicated Police Officer who stands in the rain and muddy waters doing a thankless job. As hopeless[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: President Adama Barrow Is Mocking The Constitution
While we recognize the need to pursue ethno-chauvinistic majoritarian ambitions and playing court jesting around the President with “Heeno Barrow, Kairo Barrow, Mo kendo Barrow” pleasantries, we must be cognizant of the idea that we are not a country ruled by fiat. We must resist being a country of “what[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: I Will Not Badmouth Lamin Waa Juwara (Mbaroadi)
It is not easy to write about Lamin Waa Juwara, known as Mbaroadi, and praise him and not come out as Jali Bamba. His sycophancy deifies Mbaroadi embarrassingly, even as he knows he is a mortal of common fears and normal faults. It is not easy to praise Mbaroadi without[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Open Letter To Gambia’s Attorney General And Police Boss
Dear Attorney General and minister of Justice and the Inspector General of Police, drop the charges against Westminister Foundation For Democracy representative in the Gambia, Madi Jobarteh. Questions of constitutionality aside, this action further undermines the already dwindling democratic space in which freedom of expression and civil society operates in[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: Politics Of What’s In It For Me (WIIFM)
In Gambia, a lot of our politicians conduct their politics with a WIIFM mentality: What’s-in-it-for-me mentality! It’s not only that they tell us they want to better our lives, it’s also that they want the power and control over our lives so that they can get wealthy and make those[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia’s National Assembly: Democracy At Work
The purpose of the National Assembly is to instill pride into electorates or people who were sinking into a self-destructive inferiority complex due to years of abuse and suppression. It is quite challenging to hear and read the kind of things they spoke about as lawmakers – deeply reflective, extensively[Read More…]
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