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
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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
