A message to every young person: reset your mindset. By: Alpha Manka Once you cease to speak for popularity and recognition the moment you will start to taste the flavor of intellectual…
Category: OPINION
Opinion | Moving Things
By Amadou Manjang I love arranging and rearranging things in our house but my roommate doesn’t. We have two different views, ideas and taste on how the house should look like. My…
Opinion | Collective Punishment
By Alagie Saidy-Barrow Let me begin by saying I am a huge advocate for holding people accountable for their work. If people are being paid to deliver services to the public,…
Opinion | Author Reminds Ousman Sonko Of Greed, And The Misuse Of Power
By Alagie Saidy-Barrow At the height of his powers, there were very few people in The Gambia with more influence and power than Ousman Sonko. Ousman Sonko and his interior ministry, along…
Opinion | Author Critiques Gov’t Purchase Of Exorbitant Cars For OIC Summit
By Alagie Saidy-Barrow A long time ago, some Gambians in Atlanta came up with the idea of celebrating America’s independence on July 4th. Gambians from all over the United States converged in…
Opinion | The UDP And The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Political Commentator Diagnoses The UDP Controversy! …
Opinion | Democracy Wins A People’s Victory
By Almamy Fanding Taal The change we celebrate today in Senegal is 25 years in the making: the SOPE /ALTERNACE Project of President Wade is the source code for the constitutional reforms…
Opinion | Crisis Of Legitimacy In Our Homeland
| Things that we ought to consider as a people seven years post dictatorship | By Almamy Fanding Taal We have chosen to engage in meaningless endeavors like repealing…
Column | The unhelpful nature of ahistorical assumptions regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict
By Pa Louis Sambou For most people, the Israel – Palestine question is probably the one conflict whose ugly scenes of horror has regularly appeared before their screens for a…
Column | How serious must the President’s National Dialogue Meeting initiative be taken?
By Pa Louis Sambou The premise of thought of most fair-minded people is no doubt that, dialogue is always preferable to anything else to the contrary. So, in principle, the concept of…