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Muddy Waters of Female Circumcision in Islam 

By Momodou Buharry Gassama, Stockholm, Sweden The current...

Fighting for Democracy and Diversity are Worthwhile

 By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, U.S.A  Narcissists do not...

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The Indispensability of Strong Government Institutions in Democratic Governance

By Tumbul Trawally Seattle, USA To those who second-guess or question the importance of having strong government institutions in term-limited democracies—the political impasse in Senegal, and its resolution in a...

Muddy Waters of Female Circumcision in Islam 

By Momodou Buharry Gassama, Stockholm, Sweden The current debate surrounding female circumcision, also known as...

Fighting for Democracy and Diversity are Worthwhile

 By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, U.S.A  Narcissists do not have the ability to self-reflect; cannot see...

The Vanguards of the Paradigm Shift against their Intellectual Progenies—Part 7

By Musa Sanneh From July 29th to 31st, 2023, PDOIS held its "midterm congress" in Penchami...

The PDOIS Heresy—Part 3

By Musa Camara  The People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) is preparing to hold...

The PDOIS Heresy—Part 3

By Musa Camara  The People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) is preparing to hold what it calls a non-elective congress. The so-called congress is...

Could Schools Bar Students from Wearing Hijab on Campus?

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq.  In my previous article, I explained why wearing of Hijab in public places is a religious injunction for Muslim women qualifying...

Wearing Hijab in Public Places is a Constitutionally Protected Fundamental Rights and Freedom 

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq.  “The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights,” Thomas Jefferson. The “Hijaab lawsuit” has befittingly...

The Validity of The Gambia’s Death Penalty Regime: A Question the Supreme Court Answered Incorrectly (Rejoinder)

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq., LLB, BL, LL.M. The release of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ‘Advisory Note on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in...

A Constitutional Coup d’état in PDOIS 

By Musa Sanneh Usurpation of political power is not a new phenomenon in political theory. Throughout the ages, ambitious political actors and principals have grabbed...

The PDOIS Heresy—Part 2

By Musa Camara In Part 1 of my exposé on The PDOIS Heresy, I argued with empirical evidence that PDOIS’ “poorly-created structures born out of anti-parliamentary practices best suited...

The Returning Officer is Legally Mandated to Deny Momodou Sabally Nomination

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq., LLB, BL, LL.M. The rejection of the nomination of Momodou Sabally — the United Democratic Party’s National Assembly candidate for Busumbala Constituency...

The PDOIS Heresy—Part 1

By Musa Camara The 2021 presidential election in The Gambia is now history. If there is one takeaway, the result indicates that the People’s Democratic...

The Chief Justice Must not Ouster the Courts

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq., LLB, BL, LL.M.   A letter with referenced REF:ZA227/261/01/ (254) dated 25th October 2021 and addressed to the President of The Gambia Bar Association, with the...

The Gambia is a “Shithole” Country

By Bubacarr Drammeh James Clear, a renowned author, states that "The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change: What gets rewarded, gets repeated. What gets punished, gets avoided....

The Vanguards of the Paradigm Shift against their Intellectual Progenies—Part 6

By Musa Sanneh  History indeed repeats itself. The repetition is sometimes strange, and at other times grotesquely sad. Recently, a member of the Ivory Tower...

The Vanguards of the Paradigm Shift against their Intellectual Progenies—Part 5

By Musa Sanneh  A specter is looming over The Gambia—the specter of bloated government and “class antagonism.” Fifty years after The Gambia's foundational economic blueprint was...

The Vanguards of the Paradigm Shift against their Intellectual Progenies—Part 4

By Musa Sanneh As the year 2020 draws its curtains, we are conditioned to return to The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, for the reminder that “what...

The Vanguards of the Paradigm Shift against their Intellectual Progenies—Part 3

By Musa Sanneh Nay, Africa, but most veritably The Gambia cannot afford endless ideological battle in the search for the appropriate economic model. The era...

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