Tag: sovereignty

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Analysis and Contextualization of “Revisiting Gambian Independence: A Vital Call for Intellectual Debate” by Alagi Yorro Jallow

Written by Abdoulie Baax Touray. Overview Alagi Yorro Jallow’s article is a thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating piece that challenges Gambians to critically examine their national history and independence. He argues that The Gambia’s actual independence was not on February 18, 1965 (when the country gained political independence within the Commonwealth) […]

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Correcting the History of Gambia’s Independence Day 

In December 2009, Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara published his autobiography ‘Kairaba’. In Chapter 21 – ‘Forging ahead to greater things,’ Sir Dawda hinted that indeed the Gambia was not independent on 18 February 1965, rather, as he acknowledges, “while we had a democratically elected parliament and government since independence (1965), […]