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Tribute to Sambou Gassama
By Momodou Lamin Yaffa
As humans, we always look at life from our individual prism of personal experience. Looking through my prism at the rich...
A Baobab tree has fallen: Adieu Alhaji Sambou Gassama
By Lamin Fatty,
United Nations, Nairobi-Kenya.
I called Him 'Alagi', my wife and children and many others in our circle called him 'Uncle', his colleagues...
Tribute to my friend, Alhagi Sambou Gassama
By Basidia M Drammeh
The sudden departure of my friend, Alhagi Sambou Gassama has shaken me to the core, for we last communicated under...
Legacy of a legend: Homage to my hero
By Basidia M Drammeh
July 2nd will go down in the annals of Gambia's history as the day the Gambia lost one of its most...
Tribute to Biri and Imam Barham:
Wednesday, July 22, 2020, marked a somber day in the Gambia that I feel obliged to share this tribute about these fallen heroes. Two...
On the audacity of fiscal profligacy: Letter to the Minister of Finance (Part 4)
By Momodou Sabally
Honourable Minister and senior brother, it is with a deep sense of sorrow and extreme disappointment that I write you another letter...
Alh. Banding Drammeh, giant scholar and intellectual philanthropist is no more
By Ahmed Kemo Ceesay
By ordain of the creator, verse 154 of Chapter 2 of the Holy Quran: “Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed...
Alhaji Banding Drammeh
By Kebba Landing Jagne
“Indeed, we belong to Allah and to Allah we shall return.”
Alhaji Banding Drammeh had been a classmate, a college mate and...
So much to say Abdou, so little space
By Alieu Bah (Immortal X)
We all return to the fullness of the earth forever to tarry in the eternal loneliness of one's beginnings. Today...
In honor of Mr Carr, may his soul be blessed
By Baba Galleh Jallow
To God we belong and to Him we return. And so we are asked to take the passing of loved ones...
Tribute to Ambassador Imam Pa Momodou Njie
By Abdoulie Baax Touray
Death struck Imam Pa Momodou Njie of the Pipeline Mosque on March 2 and tens of thousands of people mourned an...
Salieu Ebun H. John Gambian artist, art teacher, author 1944-2019
By Hassoum Ceesay
The demise in Banjul on 13 November 2019 of Salieu Ebun Haruna John has robbed our country of its pioneer arts and...
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A piece of me
By Mariam
Sibo Darboe
Emotionally charged
With grace and empathy
I feel so empty inside knowing that
I'm still yet to recognize myself
The other me
The me which is...
MINISTER BADJIE OUTLINES PLANS FOR YOUTH AND SPORTS IN WAHTAN-BI SHOW
New Youth and Sports Minister, Bakary Badjie has revealed that his priorities include finalising the youth policy as soon as possible and take it...
2020 Excellence in Journalism Awards: How the GPU and the awards committee pulled it off with minimal fuss when the chips were...
By Famara Fofona
On the back of the 2019 GPU National Journalism Awards, it was always going to be a big ask organizing another. There...
Revisited: Meet the fake doctor, President!
By Momodou L Jaiteh, founder KABA Communications
The victims of Gambia's former dictator's bogus cure are now seeking justice.
The Gambian court case is the first...
SOLDIER DISMISSED FOR BEING NON-GAMBIAN SPEAKS denies being son of Casamance rebel leader
By Omar Bah
A soldier, Omar Sarjo, who was dismissed from the Gambia Armed Forces for being a non-Gambian, has spoken for the first time...