(JollofNews) – President Yahya A.J.J Jammeh Babilimansa is almost a textbook demagogue, a brutal dictator and an “elephant with mosquito legs” in a China shop. The more powerful his passions and more the more uncontained his ambitions, the more likely the democratic system he inherited collapsed into despotism. Demagogues are[Read More…]
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Gambia: How Africa’s Most Brutal Dictator Committed Political Suicide
(JollofNews) -Warneford Hall, OX3 7XA, Oxford, UK (2017-01-27) – In his book The Revolution Betrayed, Leon Trotsky, the Russian Marxist and revolutionary theorist writes: “Whereas revolution is the locomotive of history, reactionary regimes especially totalitarian regimes…act as a colossal brake on human consciousness.” For the past weeks, before the departure[Read More…]
London Letter With Dida Halake: Mommy Fatoumatta Tambajang Please Ignore Brother Madi
(JollofNews) – My Gambian brother Madi Jobarteh who has “consulted and exchanged ideas privately” with Madam Fatoumatta Jallow-Tambajang for a long time, and whose very determination to oust Yahya Jammeh has been inspired by Madam Tambajang, has felt compelled to write to her and ask her not to accept the[Read More…]