President Barrow is to be commended for naming public buildings after two former Vice Presidents in acknowledgment of their contributions to The Gambia, although it was a mistake to name a public building after his mother. Alagi Yorro Jallow Fatoumatta: President Adama Barrow has launched an initiative to honor notable […]
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In memoriam: First anniversary of the passing of Tuku Jallow, a matriarch and prominent figure in the Third Liberation movement
In memoriam: May 25, marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of Tuku Jallow, a matriarch and prominent figure in the Third Liberation movement, known for her fervent pro-democracy activism within the Gambian diaspora. Her efforts were aimed at reinstating democracy and ending the human rights abuses under Yahya Jammeh’s […]
Corruption: The Chichidodo Bird as a Machiavellian Symbol in Politics
Fatoumatta: Ghanian author Ayi Kwei Armah, in ‘The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born’ (1968), describes the chichidodo bird that detests excrement profoundly but feeds solely on maggots, which thrive best within a lavatory. This paradoxical behavior symbolizes the bird. The chichidodo, native to parts of Ghana, abhors human waste […]
Sami women‘s group adopts NPP‘s Pa Jagne as Father
The women‘s group of Sami Pachonki in Sami District, Central River Region has on Saturday, 18th May 2024 adopted Pa Jagne of the National People‘s Party (NPP) as their Father. The outspoken NPP stalwart Pa Jagne and his entourage visited the women‘s group in Sami Pachonki where they had a short […]