Tag: lawyer

Opinion, Personality Of The Week

A Tribute to an Author, Legal Luminary, and Intellectual Giant: Alhagie Fafa Edirissa Nderry Dado Mbai at 84, Remembering the Village Boy from Sambang Wolof in the Central River Region, Niamina, Who Became The Gambia’s Legal Conscience

Fatoumatta: Born on 18 September 1942 in Sambang Wolof, Niamina West, Alhagie Fafa Edirissa Mbai rose from rural obscurity to become one of The Gambia’s most formidable legal minds, Attorney General in two republics, author, public intellectual, and constitutional sentinel. On what would have been his eighty‑fourth birthday today, the […]

Opinion, Personality Of The Week

A Tribute to Courage and Brilliance: Sourahata Janneh -more than a lawyer, he is a legal oracle whose courage, combined with intellect, can change the course of history

Author’s Note. Fatoumatta: In a week dedicated to honoring the custodians of our Republic’s conscience, today’s Thursday Tribute turns its gaze toward one of the most consequential legal minds in Gambian history. Barrister Sourahata Baboucarr Semega‑Janneh stands among that rare generation of jurists whose courage fortified the nation when its […]

News, Personality Of The Week

HONORING SENIOR COUNSEL ANTOUMAN B. GAYE: THE QUIET ARCHITECTURE OF COURAGE IN A REPUBLIC TESTED BY FEAR

Fatoumatta: This Thursday Tribute honors Senior Counsel Antouman B. Gaye, whose quiet courage steadied a nation in its darkest years, whose humanity transcended the courtroom, and whose integrity became a moral anchor in a republic struggling to breathe. In an age of fear, he stood gently but firmly, shaping the […]