Kush: Sierra Leone’s New Illegal Drug
Credit: BBC Africa Eye
BBC Africa Eye reveals how a powerful, illegal street drug called Kush is running rampant and having a devastating effect on the youth of...
Who is Paul-Henri Damiba, Leader Of The Burkina Faso Coup?
A lieutenant colonel appointed to oversee security in Burkina Faso’s capital has emerged as the leader of a military coup that overthrew President Roch Kabore after heavy gunfights...
Rise of The Gambian Atheist
Until recently, it could be said that there’s no Gambian atheist. If there was, he certainly held his unsavoury beliefs close to his chest. There’s the mushrooming...
The Love Life of Former President Jawara. Part 1
Many things have been said of former President Jawara. However, the fact that he was a hopeless romantic is known to few. He did not even attempt...
Barrow’s Unexpected Guest
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
Almost five years ago this month, the author met with President Adama Barrow in a downtown New York City hotel. And he wrote all...
MACKY SALL GOV’T: Senegalese Rejoice as New Multi-Million Dollar Industrial Park Opens
By Charles Arthur
Forty kilometers (24 miles) from the capital, Dakar, a new industrial park has opened. Seven companies, from China, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Tunisia and one from...
The Imam Who Stands for the Truth
Yahya Jammeh does not use any supernatural means to rule Gambians for more than two decades. Jammeh’s strength lies in his ability to cage, silence or disappear...
Risking his teen life on the perilous journey to Europe, Jibril realises his childhood...
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
In 2015, 16-year-old Jibril Boja (spelt Bojang in Gambia), who at the time lacked fate in actualizing his dreams of a better future and...
Explainer: Does the Kankurang masquerade belong to only the Mandinka tribe in The Gambia,...
By Dawda Baldeh
The Kankurang masquerade is one of the famous cultural practices observed by many in The Gambia. During the Miss Gambia Pageant held on Friday, December...
Gambian Women Narrate The Pains Of Distance Marriage
By: Jankey Touray
Marriage, also called matrimony or union, is a culturally and often lawfully identified union between people called spouses. It solidifies bonds and commitments between them,...
Sintet village: Daughter reuniting a divided village through WILL
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
December 1983, in Sintet village in the Foni Jarrol Constituency, West Coast Region of The Gambia, Fatou Baldeh was born, a baby who would...
How Baddibuka’s Music Change After Marrying Bintou
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
Prior to June 2020, Bintou Jatta had never considered herself a singer, nor did she believe she possessed the necessary talent to become one....
For the Love of Soninkara: Tribute to Sise Sawaneh
The sudden demise of Sise Jaha Sawaneh hit me like a thunderbolt. The news is completely devastating and I know for sure that most people who know...
Where is The Promised Transparency
HELLO MR PRESIDENT…
Among the numerous issues we blamed and fought Yahya Jammeh for was the claim that his government was not transparent. We all claimed that the...
PROFILE: Alhaji Soriba Jabbi First President, Supreme Islamic Council The Gambia
By Ba S Jabbi
Alhagi Soriba Jabbi was born in 1942 to Soriba Jabbi and Oumie Jabbi in Jarra Sutukung village, Jarra East District. He was a Muslim...
Golden League Vs The People of Gunjur Intensifies. Gambia’s Sovereignty Questioned
As anger mounts in Gunjur, concerning the alleged environmental abuse by the Chinese Company Golden League, the youths of the town have vowed to intensify their pressure...
From the Clutches of Mile II: Bob Keita’s Long Walk to Freedom
By: Hadram Hydara
A trial over rape allegations against Baboucarr Bob Keita by his ex-wife, Sainabou Mbye, and her younger sister, had — for almost three years —...
On the Lambai Chronicles: Letter to my friend (Part 1)
Sheriff, my brother and good friend,
It has been a while since I last penned you an epistle on the happenings in our little town; but as I...
TRIBUTE: Sally P.C Njie(1932-2020), (The Gambia’s First Librarian; Pioneer Chief Librarian of The Gambia...
The Mother of Library in The Gambia is Gone!
By: Hassoum Ceesay, Historian
Aunty Sally P.C Njie died this week at the ripe age of 88. She was the...
