Fatoumatta: Gambian home-based scholars and intellectuals must embrace the ‘publish or perish’ ethos and adopt a macro rather than micro perspective to achieve global recognition like their peers, but not in obscurity. Alagi Yorro Jallow. I’m not very familiar with Dr. Mbye Kebba Kah. I haven’t encountered him on any […]
Author: Alagi Yorro Jallow
The Ministry of Youth and Sports must find innovative ways and means to manage and rejuvenate our sports sector
Alagi Yorro Jallow. Fatoumatta: Sports have become intertwined with politics, garnering international respect and prestige. Nations like Botswana, Jamaica, and other Caribbean countries may be small, but they command respect due to their sporting excellence. By adopting these strategies, our country, the Gambia, can develop a strong sports ecosystem that […]
Opinion: The press, when trained for democracy, becomes a vital pillar of our society, shaping and guiding our democratic progress
Alagi Yorro Jallow Fatoumatta: The media are at the heart of democratic life in contexts such as ours, where disinformation, misinformation and propaganda, fake news, and intellectual terrorism of the minority over the majority and intellectual populism on social media over national issues of critical and sober voices not amplified […]
The Trojan Horse in Civil Society and the Ball of the Counterfeiters
Alagi Yorro Jallow Fatoumatta: A member of civil society, akin to a modern-day vigilante, must remain objective, fair, unbiased, nonpartisan, and independent, not affiliated with any group or religion. Their duty is to uphold the truth, defend democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and public freedoms, and to call […]