The Gambia: The new mind of a people and the color of betrayalMonday, April 29, 2013
By Mathew K JallowTo digress from the nastiness of politics for a moment, this focus, instead, on human nature in Gambia, is a fundamental component of the changes in our cultural landscape. This plunge into the complexity of human nature attempts to contextualize the enormous lapses in judg ...
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The Gambia: The beckoning of Raleigh and the harrowing calls to Sweet CarolinaFriday, April 26, 2013
By Mathew K JallowThere is growing resistance; the coalition is fortifying and the unity of purpose is coalescing around a central theme that has dominated Gambian life and politics for more than a decade and half. It is belated, yet it is coming not a moment too soon. Raleigh, North Carolina, ... |
The Gambia: Yahya Jammeh, PURA and Internet Café Operators acts beyond legalityFriday, April 26, 2013
By Mathew K JallowIt was a maddening reinforcement of the narrative Gambians have become all too familiar with. With one sweeping, but seemingly innocuous declaration, PURA, Gambia, declared illegal, three essential elements of the Internet, and with it, the technological that defines a centur ... |
The Gambia: Sana Manneh; a tribute to a fighting legend from another eraFriday, March 15, 2013
By Mathew K JallowFriedrich Nietzsche would, with easy credence, argue that the radical traditions of the 1960s were an aesthetic expression of the intellectual awakening of the genius of an era. And Timothy Leary, Abby Hoffman, Eldridge Cleaver and Franz Fanon, vanguards of the noble causes o ... |
The Gambia: Witness to genocide; Bai Lowe unravels Yahya Jammeh’s murderous conspiracyMonday, March 04, 2013
By Mathew K JallowBai Lowes confession was delirious and breath-taking; his narrative about the executions of Gambians and Ghanians alike, gruesome and grisly. Listening to the former military officer, Bai Lowe, confess his role and involvement in the Yahya Jammeh killing machine, on Freedom ... |
Senegambia: Macky Sall’s blunder and Senegal’s descent into familiar political apathy?Tuesday, February 26, 2013
By Mathew K JallowWill he or will he not? The intensity of the speculations and counter-speculations was not unlike a moviegoers burning desire to unlock the mystery of Who Shot J.R. in the movie, Dallas. In the end, it did not take long before this nagging question was answered. And to say ... |
In Ghanaian Murders, Gambia’s Despot, Yahya Jammeh Taken to Int'l. Court of JusticeWednesday, February 06, 2013
An International Human Rights Activist, Anthony Rau has filed a suit at the International Court of Justice against former President John Agyekum Kufuor, NPP flag-bearer Nana Akuffo-Addo and Gambian President Yahya Jammeh.Mr. Rau said former President Kufuor and Nana Akuffo-Addo were complicit in ... |
The Gambia: Moving forward, fear is no longer an option for GambiansWednesday, January 23, 2013
By Mathew K JallowA recent Maafanta travel narrative through my microscope brought back haunting memories of chilling awareness of the dual tragedies of demoralizing economic deprivation and degrading social antagonism, which betrayed the superficial tranquility of a blundering regime. It wa ... |
The Gambia: Yahya Jammeh to EU: Go to hell; Prison executions blown out of proportionsThursday, January 17, 2013
By Mathew K JallowYahya Jammehs shocking statements last week that the executions of; not nine, but twenty-five innocent Mile Two Prison inmates was blown out of proportions and telling the European Union to go to Hell, veered well past the point of insensitivity into something very clo ... |
The Gambia: The case of a North Korea in the heart of West AfricaMonday, October 22, 2012
By Mathew K Jallow.In more ways than one, the parallels are awfully striking. The similarities notorious. Even the differences are blisteringly mind-blowing and bear a downright blatant diabolical resemblance. Behind the extreme isolation and unmatched secretiveness, a self-absorbed political ju ... |
The Gambia: Sidia Bayo says Bon Jour, Gambia says allez au diableFriday, September 28, 2012
By Mathew K JallowTo say that it was an ostentatious display of puerile naivety would be an understatement. It was truly remarkable. It was surreal. And I am being gracious. The city of Dakar had never seen anything like it. The center of attraction was a frail looking French-born of Gambian p ... |
The Gambia: An overview of Yahya Jammeh military regime’s horrible legacyWednesday, August 15, 2012
By Mathew K JallowThe story I wanted to write this week was going to be extremely flattering, yet not superfluous. It was going to be a glowing tribute to a great president, without being a canting expose of his still untold story. It was to be about Sir Dawda K Jawaras extraordinary legacy and ... |
The Gambia: Ramadan challenge for Imam Touray, Bishop Ellison, Imam Kah and Imam FattyThursday, August 02, 2012
By Mathew K JallowThe seriousness and the enormity of the horrors of Mile 2 Central Prison will never fully be known until after the demise of Yahya Jammeh, but the cruelty he will leave behind the tall, forbidden walls of that unholy citadel of misery, agony and death, is all too real. If anyth ... |
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