The late Dr. Momodou Max Jallow was among key figures in Brufut who felt Taf was grabbing their lands and he was not quiet about it. In 2000 or thereabouts, I received a call from Max as he was fondly called that there was to be a huge protest in[Read More…]
Tag: Ex-President Yahya Jammeh
Darboe Reminisces Role Of 4 UDP Women In Paving Way For Resistance To Dictatorship
Gambia’s opposition leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has fondly remembered the valour of four UDP women, who in 1996, resisted with their bare hands, the sheer might of the dictator’s trigger-happy paramilitary thus paving the way for resistance to ex-president Yahya Jammeh’s bullying tactics. The quartet also conquered the fear for[Read More…]
JollofNews Looks Back To 22 July 1994
In the late 80s and early 90s, public perception of corruption in Sir Dawda Jawara’s government was very high. At the same time, nepotism has also rocked Dawda Jawara’s government as the ‘mantra’ of whom you know and not what you know, thrived. Jawara himself was not seen to be[Read More…]
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