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What Gambians Want 2023: How Politicians Become Gentle to Voters During Elections… After Elections, They Gobble Building up Politics of The Belly.

Fatoumatta: The Local Government Elections are just a new calendar. And so far, the chaos of candidates of Chairmen and Mayor’s/Mayoress choices is loud, sufficient for even a stubborn optimist to admit to the cynicism of citizens who have long predicted another case of our vulnerability to political polarizations in […]

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OJ: He broke out of the shadows to bend the arc of history

By Mathew K Jallow. Unlike many of his countrymen, he never succumbed to the abstraction of reality in order to escape the heavy moral burden weighing down Gambia’s political establishment. And nor did the state’s use of brutal force lull him into fear and hopelessness. OJ was awake to the […]