Essays

With Talib Gibran A few days ago, a friend who lives afar sent me a rather simple question: Are you all right? I was supposed...

With Talib Gibran I will start today, this Friday, with the re-narration of a story I first heard from Wole Soyinka after apparently leaving Trumpland.One...

With Talib Gibran As recent as Monday, Sheriff Bojang walked into my office and summoned me, and the rest, to a meeting. It was supposed...

By Talib Gibran I completed ANNA after months of spellbinding episodes of love and tragedy perfectly imagined and, for the first time in a long...

By Momodou Sabally I have been relatively mute since the explosion of the debate on secularism started upon release of our draft constitution. I thought...

With Mustapha K Darboe A man looked on with blood shot eyes. His fist in slow motion fell on the table before him. The protested...

With Mustapha K Darboe It has been his routine. Each day Suntu comes to people but he stays alone. Perhaps he has become accustomed to...

With Talib Gibran Now that the dust has settled; no, now that the tornado has settled on what was arguably the most controversial headline in...

By Sheriff Baba Bojang On a brisk Thursday morning on January 10th 2017, I drove my former cabinet colleague and friend Alieu Jammeh to a...

By Talib Gibran Getting back together has always looked smooth for people. That's not exactly true for me. I've always believed whatever ended your relationship with...

By Talib Gibran This generation is love-struck. We fall in love so easily and so many times that it becomes just temporary sensual experiences accumulated...

In December 2016, I was one of those who were recording history. Brothers became sworn enemies with minds prepared to put a dagger in each...