“It is time for new hands to lift the burdens.”- Nelson Mandela “My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African Freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.” – Mwalimu Julius Nyerer 1st President Of Tanzania Question: What Is African Freedom Day? What year was it proclaimed? How many African countries had political independence when it was proclaimed?
Author: Gainako
By Baba Galleh Jallow Apart from Bogeyman, Second Genamin Gyant DaMidget alias Mbarass, was also known as Greedy Man. The persistent hunger he suffered as a child now translated itself into an insatiable lust for food. If there was one thing that DaMidget enjoyed more than firing his invisible gun, it was stuffing his increasingly calabash stomach with delicious food. Tales of afra nights soon became legendary in No Talk Republic. It was rumored that when Gyant DaMidget saw food, his throat involuntarily roared and his ears visibly twitched. Food made his nose involuntarily twitch his cheeks quiver like sails…
As British MPs frown on the continued detention without trial and disappearance without trace in the Gambia. UK`s Senior Minister of State, Department for Communities and Local Government & Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi have disclosed that UK government with other EU member states are exploring other options available to the EU under the Cotonou Agreement following the suspension of Political Dialogue by Gambia government with EU.
By Mathew K Jallow Gambia’s court system is in overdrive. The judiciary is burdened with frivolous cases brought up by the regime and with corruption so blatantly endemic, the rights to liberty are bought and sold like commodities. Incarceration of human beings has become a mere sport as magistrates and judges play Russian roulette with people’s lives. It seems the powers that be at the judiciary and in the legal system have no clue that sending anyone to Mile 2 Prison is a potential death sentence. The administration of justice is a sham, a total failure; from the office of…
By Musa Camara Irreformable and notorious individuals who commit blatant infractions or heinous crimes are generally isolated, publicly shamed, unequivocally condemned, socially sanctioned and even legally punished both in the interest of justice and for the good of society. Not the mercurial dictator who demands to be called His Excellency, Doctor, Professor, Sheikh, Alhagie Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, Nasirudeen, the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and the Chief Custodian of the Sacred Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia. For nineteen years on, it doesn’t matter what violations he commits against citizens or the law, he enjoys total…
APRIL 10TH/11TH 2000 On April 10th/11th 2000 We extended dialogue to you And you answered with recalcitrance and insults As if we do not share community A commonalty of nation and destiny The barbarity of your treachery On April 10th/11th 2000 Our embrace of common sense You misconstrued for lack of determination To further the course of justice And address the wrongs done to us The stupidity of your politics On April 10th/11th 2000 We came out in peace and order But you reacted with instruments of war Your hidden agents of shame and terror That maim rape and murder The…
By Mathew K Jallow It was a cool summer morning and darkness was slowly giving way to a morning full of promise. It was at that time of day when the light seemed to chase the darkness away and gradually everything around became visible again after the long dreaded night. As little morning birds chirped their melancholic melodies high up the mahogany bantaba trees, a lone woman was walking from the village well carrying water on her head. She walked towards her hut with deliberate slowness as if without a care in the world. When she was barely a few…
April 10th & 11th has been the darkest day in the history of the Gambia. It was the day(s) when innocent Gambian students were gunned down with live bullets leaving 13 students and a journalist dead. Mr. Omar Joof the former President of the Gambia Student Union (GAMSU) during the student massacre was our GUEST at Gainako Radio. Omar commemorated the student killings by recounting how events unfolded on that fateful day. He made an emotional appeal to all Gambians not to forget the student victims who were killed and some maimed for live for simply expressing their right to…
By D. A. Jawo As Gambians and people of conscience all over the world mark the 13th anniversary of the April 10 and 11 student demo which was brutally suppressed by the security forces, resulting in the deaths of more than 14 innocent Gambian children and the maiming of several more, the aggrieved relations and friends of those innocent young souls are still waiting for justice for their loved ones. We can all recall those fateful two days in April 2000 when such brutality was unleashed on innocent Gambian children while their only crime was to insist on staging a peaceful demonstration…
Ambassador Edward M. “Ned” Alford United States Ambassador to The Gambia. BANJUL Dear Mr. Ambassador, This is my first occasion of having to address a letter to you concerning the political situation in The Gambia. Normally, my first letter would have been about the deplorable human right condition under the regime of Yaya Jammeh, if it weren’t for the extraordinary developments brought about by last week’s local government elections in which Independent candidates scored impressive victories against, what can only be termed as, the reigning APRC.