By Mathew K Jallow
It was the puzzling phone call heard around the world, conflicting and contradictory, and naturally, it deflated the hopes and aspirations of a people and punctuated a week of whirling celebrations with a moment of dystopia and resignation. The televised cameo, an antithesis to the aggregate of everything known about Gambia’s political stalemate, rattled some and left many more scurrying desperately for answers. The recorded phone call to the unwary Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleef, broadcast on national television, broke legal and ethical rules, and bewildered its Gambian viewers. But, the conversations with President Sirleef, it soon turned out, was an old recording, broadcast for propaganda purposes, to confuse and drive a wedge that Read full article Here