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Home, sweet home
With Aisha Jallow
Inside the entrance door of my home I have a small door mat with the message:
'Home, sweet home'. This simple message gives...
Dr ML Sedat Jobe Former Foreign Minister and Ambassador
With Alagie Manneh
Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe was born in Bansang in 1944. His grandfather, Suku Jobe, was a celebrated Sufi poet and his father,...
Rule and conquer
With Aisha Jallow
Have you ever stopped to observe the lives of ants? You see them running around endlessly, pushing and pulling whatever they have...
Gallo Saidy Award-winning Gambian civil engineer
With Alagie Manneh
Gallo Saidy is a Sukuta born award winningGambian civil engineer. He left a top paying post as a group manager of infrastructure...
Rodney D Sieh Liberian journalist who was sentenced to 5,000 years imprisonment
Rodney Sieh was a reporter and sports editor on Daily Observer, The Gambia before Yahya Jammeh's pogrom on journalists forced him into exile in...
Personality cult
With Aisha Jallow
Definition of personality cult:a situation in which a public figure (such as a political leader) is deliberately presented to the people of...
Musa Jallow Top Real Estate developer in US
With Alagie Manneh
Real Estate business anywhere in the world and America in particular is not for the faint hearted. The industry in America is...
The Crying Coast of Africa
With Aisha Jallow
I have been exited, happy, curious, and proud of the country I think of as my second home. Despite the struggles you...
Musa Koteh a.k.a ‘King Sport’ Founder of Three Years Jotna movement
Alagie Manneh: Musa Koteh is your name, why do you hide behind the name 'King Sport'?
Ask me why they name me King Sport. That...
When the smile became a smirk
With Aisha Jallow
Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party in Germany. He was the one behind the genocide, the brain behind the...
Gumbo Touray Leader of All People’s Party
With Alagie Manneh
You hail from Ballangharr in CRR, how was it like growing up in rural Gambia?
I attended the village school in Ballanghar, and...
Why bother about politics?
With Aisha Jallow
When I was young I asked that question, just as many others. Why bother? Politics is boring and I can't influence anyone...
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