Ask anyone you meet on the streets and they will tell you what Gambia’s problems are and those behind the problems. Corruption? We all know who the corrupt ones are. It just so happens that the corrupt ones are not us or our family members. It is the “others”. Hypocrisy?[Read More…]
Opinion
Cherno Baba Jallow: The Great Homecoming, And Memories Galore
I finally set foot on Gambian soil on December 30, 2021. It would be 25 years since I left. For 23 years, I remained a political exile in America. For my personal safety, I dared not return here. Jammeh was in power. And he hated his critics. Like me. When[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: The Peter Pan Syndrome
“All children, except one, grow up”, wrote the author of “Peter and Wendy”. In The Gambia, all children, except soured political party diehards, grow up. And in The Gambia, these soured political party diehards are a dime a dozen and they are precariously propped on both ends of the pendulum[Read More…]