It is customary that during Eid celebrations, Muslim religious leaders pay a visit to the seat of power at State House where they meet with the president and some within his cabinet. Such visits are in line with tradition and customary practices within the Gambian cultural set up when people visit each other, pray for… Continue reading A tyrant’s desire
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Fueling tribalism
...will Gambians yield to bigotry or stand up unified against it and celebrate our diversity in cultural values, or will we give it a pass and open the floodgates to irreversible animosity whose ultimate end will be catastrophic for all.
Adama Barrow’s weird relationship with Yaya Jammeh and APRC
Immediately following a widely distributed clip of a Senegalese journalist’s interview, which was also published in local newspapers, the Gambia government came out swiftly to debunk claims made by the journalist in that interview. In a sit down interview with Senegalese journalists about his upcoming piece, Mr. Pape Sané, himself a Senegalese journalist, claimed that… Continue reading Adama Barrow’s weird relationship with Yaya Jammeh and APRC
Watching disaster unfold in slow motion
In July 2018, President Adama Barrow made the following pronouncements in Essau; “Discussions have reached advanced stage to construct a bridge over Banjul-Barra crossing that would last fifty years. The foundation stone will be laid in 2019 and works will take four years to complete.” (State House, The Gambia, 2018) In the same meeting, he… Continue reading Watching disaster unfold in slow motion
The erosion of our ways
In an earlier post a few years ago, I decried the erosion of our various Gambian cultural values and identities. It appears that phenomenon of self-immolation, is worse than it was then and getting increasingly worse as the years tick by. Cultures are nations onto themselves and constitute the original meaning of what a nation… Continue reading The erosion of our ways
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