Essays

The Gambia's development has entered into a dramatic phase. There has been transformation in many sectors of the economy through the diverse development strategies that we have adopted. However, there are challenges that continue to threaten whatever transformation we have registered as a nation.

Located twenty minutes from the towering skyscrapers of central Dakar, Gorée is an Island of enchanting beauty that stays with you long after you are gone away from its shores and beautiful people.

And We did not grant to any man before you eternity [on earth]; so if you die - would they be eternal? Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned. (Surah Anbiya V. 35-36). I received news of the passing of my beloved mother on Tuesday April 28 from a sobbing wife, Jai Sarr. I asked her to stop crying and I thanked Allah for keeping Yaboye this long and for giving her a good and beautiful life.

In this fifth series of UK Decides, Gambian-based UK politics researcher, Amadou Camara, looks at the conservative party's attempt to deploy their star political player Boris Johnson to claw back votes, the intense debate over the SNP holding the balance of power, and tightly controlled way of campaigning to avoid bad press by the main parties.

Recently I led the Blaque Magique team to an event we were invited to. The team of young poets and vocalists were excited as always to do the one thing they all shared in common; performance.

Love or hate him, there is one constant about Edrissa Mass Jobe: he is genuinely passionate about the birth of a new Gambia through greater economic independence.

What a crazy two weeks it has been right? I mean it almost feels like a doomsday movie by Spielberg with an amazing soundtrack to match; another aeroplane semi-disaster, over a thousand people lost at sea and madmen in the South on the loose.

Around the year 1983 my cousin Alhagie Dibba took me to his home village of Farafenni for my Christmas vacation. It was fun with a flurry of activities at the Loumo and the Yelli Tenda, Bamba Tenda Ferry Crossing. Groundnuts and other grains aplenty, the mood was buoyant because it was that period in the farmers' calendar called Tereto (harvest season).