Month: July 2016

Society

Toubab Who Diagnoses Yahya Jammeh

Since July 1994, Gambians have been debating whether their president needs psychiatric treatment. While the diaspora media openly write or state that Yahya Jammeh grapples with psychiatric problems, Gambians murmur in their homes for fear of being disappeared, chained or tortured to death. But one man has posted a video […]

Society

Top European Academic Journal Publishes Sankanu’s Article On African Cinema

As part of his passion for the advancement of scholarship on African cinema, prominent Gambian filmmaker and scholar, Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, wrote a groundbreaking academic article titled “Rediscovering Frantz Fanon at Scotland’s Africa in Motion film Festival” for the Spring 2016 edition of NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies […]

Society

No to Mokati Mansa

By Baba Galleh Jallow Actualizing the family nation requires that we reassess the nature of political relationships in our country with a view to relocating political power from the state to the people where it rightfully belongs. And since our present government sees itself as a nation builder perched on […]

Society

How NIA Jubilates Darboe’s Conviction

The Gambia’s spy agency jubilated the conviction and sentencing of a prominent opposition leader with a football match at the beach. Over the years, Gambian security agents, particularly the National Intelligence Agents, have conspired to destroy the main opposition United Democratic Party at all costs. These agents have beaten, murdered, […]

Society

Lawyer Darboe’s Wife Speaks

The senior wife of the Gambia’s convicted leader of the opposition United Democratic Party has spoken volumes about her husband, revealing his untold story. Maimuna Ndure-Darboe, a former educationist, remains loyal and thankful to “a husband who had never made us cry.” Mrs Darboe who delivered the heavyweight statement at […]

Editorial

The Die Is Cast; What Next?

The conviction and subsequent sentencing of the opposition United Democratic Party leadership, supporters and opposition activists has again reminded us about the Jammeh regime’s callousness, cruelty and disrespect for human rights and the rule of law. The regime’s heartlessness have over and over gone over the roof. It has simply […]