Previously Reviewed 5/10/18. by Michela Wrong. Reviewed by Alagi Yorro Jallow. Fatoumatta: I highly recommend this excellent book to students of Political Science and public policy influencers and all journalists and genuine activists. Journalists and those interested in African politics, the cankerworm of corruption, and how it is challenging to […]
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President
By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (with Kim McLarin) Harper. Review by Alagi Yorro Jallow. Fatoumatta: In her first run for President, her opponent’s slogan was, the Stockholm Syndrome “He Killed My Ma, killed My Pa so I Will Vote For Him.” She lost that 1997 election finished second place, won by […]
Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
by Ousmane Oumar Kane. Short review By Alagi Yorro Jallow. Fatoumatta: It is a perfect book worth reading for the rest of Ramadan and highly recommended in your home library: When it comes to the intellectual history of black Africa, the discourses seldom go beyond Timbuktu—in contrast, arguing that black […]
Merchants Of Truth
By Jill Abramson. Review Alagi Yorro Jallow‧ Fatoumatta: I highly recommend this excellent book to all Gambian journalists and media practitioners. Highly readable textbook with a combination of essential topics, in-depth reporting, endlessly fascinating anecdotes, and vivid writings. Ms. Jill Abramson’s first female editor in chief of the New York […]