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The winds of change are turning stale…About the faraba deaths and what it means to New Gambia
By Rohey Samba
Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow's open letter to the President currently making the rounds on social media and reproduced on The Standard's Wednesday...
My Ramadan Diary: The milk of human kindness of African mothers
With Rohey Samba
The figure of my soon to be eleven year old son, Matin, looming over my iPad, and laughing out loud while watching...
My Ramadan Diary: Memories of cadetship in Ramadan at the Regional Maritime Academy
With Rohey Samba
Ramadan came upon us in Ghana during our cadetship training at the Regional Maritime Academy. The year was 2003; location, Nungua-Accra.
On my...
My Ramadan Diary: Where godliness and humanity meet
With Rohey Samba
Times change. It would be one of life's major bores if it didn't. That's why we have different seasons; namely, the dry...
A rift of an aged old adage relating to Gambia’s best workers—The house-helps ‘Mbindaane’
With Rohey Samba
Often they wake before everybody else in the household. They clean our houses. Take care of our children. Wash our dirty laundry....
A letter to my son
With Rohey Samba
Dear Mawdo,
Enclosed are the armlets the “charlatan” has given me to send to you for 'protection' against the vices of the tongue...
About what really matters to all of us…Politics!
With Rohey Samba
Often it is said that there is no use crying over spilled milk. In the realm of our existence nothing can be...
Why men cheat? It is because they can
With Rohey Samba
The first time I saw her, she was on television. Split-eyed, roundish and fair…the kinda fair that comes from using skin lightening...
About love and polygamy: “The lane of love is narrow; there is room for only one”
With Rohey Samba
These are not my words. They are the words of the Indian poet, Kabir. But they might as well have come from...
Delving into the beastly nature of our insensitivity: Why the outrage over the macabre kids’ slayings is a form of hypocrisy.
With Rohey Samba
The big news, which is not very new, honestly, is the slaying, kidnapping and sacrificing of kids that is widely circulated on...
Where do broken hearts go? Can they find there way home?
With Rohey Samba
Where do broken hearts go? Can they find there way home? Back to the open arms of a love that's waiting there…...
A letter to my daughters
With Rohey Samba
Dear Jewo and Bobo,
I have waited long and hard to write to you my girls. It is not a prevarication of parental...
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Mrs Henrietta Didigu
I welcome distinguished members of the fourth realm to the first of a series of media events...
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