Fatoumatta: I will speak off the cuff. Also, I will say this to you. No amount of image laundering will save the face of the journalism profession in two neighboring countries, the Gambia and Senegal. I say this to my friends and relative journalists, and I will say this to […]
Author: Alagi Yorro Jallow
Tribute in Memory of a Brother, a High School Senior, and a Legal Scholar, Dr.Henry Carrol
Now that I am finding the strength to exit the grieving phase and enter the phase of articulating my gratitude to my departed friend, Dr. Henry Darlington Richmond Carrol, LLB (HONS) U.K., B.L. (Hons); LLM (U.K.); Ph.D. (U.K.), a Doctor of Laws and former Registrar of Companies of the Attorney […]
Epitaph: Bola Carrol To a Brother and Friend, Barrister and Solicitor of the Gambia Supreme Court
It is a tribute by Alagi Yorro Jallow in honor of the passage and memory of Bola Carrol, lawyer and humanist who transited on October 17, 2023. On this harmattan season Tuesday morning, I want to truly express my sympathy and that of my family for the tragic loss of […]
Epitaph: To a Friend, Brother, Doxologist, and Preacher Sheikh Landing Kintiba Nasso
Inna lillahi wa inallah-e-raji’oonWhen an older man dies, a library burns to the ground, says Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist (1901-1991). Thus, it was with the frontline of the Gambia’s finest Islamic doxologist and a Muslim preacher whose signature was to sing and recite Islamic hymns and […]
