Dear Mr President, I am writing to you as a concerned citizen of our beloved nation. It is with great unease that I have noticed a significant increase in crime over the past few months. As a responsible citizen, I feel that it is my duty to bring this matter […]
It is pertinent that all citizens, political parties and CSOs pay close attention to the growing weaponization of laws and institutions in this country thus posing clear and present danger to democracy and human rights. The detention of Momodou Sabally and Sheriffo Sonko of UDP in the wake of the […]
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 […]
In 1994, as a journalist with Radio Gambia I had the privilege of being the first and only Gambian journalist to interview the imam who came from Mecca to consecrate the State House Mosque. One of my questions to him was about the position of female circumcision in Islam. His […]