By Sulayman Lecturer Darboe  ECOWAS FIRST APPROACH TO THE NIGER CRISIS IS IN ITSELF A FAILURE Foremost, I want to express explicitly that I am not in any way justifying the Military Coup in Niger just like I heavily frowned at Alpha Conde's constitutional coup in Conakry. However, one expects that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a regional entity under the leadership of Nigeria's unsettled President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would use  better and productive approaches premised on  conclusive analysis of the Niger crisis in order to establish a decision that ..read more

 A JOINT REFLECTION ON THE SOCIO-HISTORIC STUDY TOUR AND RESEARCH TRIP TO BISSAU BY FABACK GIBBA AND LAMIN MARENA On July 23rd, 2023, under the tutelage of DR. Ensa Touray, we departed for Guinea Bissau formerly known as Portuguese Guinea in our quest to obtain and learn from a plethora of valuable socio-historical facts and people within the particular West African Country, but solely within the capital (Bissau). Pictorials of our departure The endeavor which is, of course, a customary and consistent summer activity under the guardianship of Dr. Touray of the University of The Gambia Hi ..read more

  THE UNFATHOMABLE WOE In Africa, a President who probably has no land prior to their presidency will personally own over 280 lands and uncountable large assets and services during their presidency and still have the audacity to preach about equal distribution of state resources and changing the lives and livelihoods of the poor people. Sadly, their predecessor(s) who seems to be worst will seize those assets and sell them under the pretension that it's for the state interest while they induce transparency to sleep in broad daylight. Some of us who do not care about the actions and inac ..read more

THEMES IN FATOUMATTA BAYO’S SORROWS OF A STEPMOTHER Theme refers to the main or central idea that are embedded in a literary work. There is more than one theme in most of the literary works depending on the author’s choice. Importantly, themes are more overt than others. In other words, some themes are clearly portrayed with much evidence in the text to support their existence. However, themes realized or spotted from literary works are usually done by the readers or viewers who in their rationalization feel a particular idea is central. In Sorrows of a Stepmother, there are series of them ..read more

TOLERANCE-CUM-PANACEAN Like so many contested terms, it is obvious and much safer to understand that tolerance has no universally accepted definition. Diversely contextualized, defined, described, illustrated, and subsequently understood by scholars and non-scholars alike, the concept and processes of tolerance is chronologically ternary: accepting, respecting, and appreciating differences. These differences may be political, religious, racial, tribal, sportal and so forth, and they can either be on a temporal or permanent basis as well as natural or socially constructed. The core is the tru ..read more

  A MOMENT TO BE JUST Do not allow your desire for position turn you to a denigrator and a deceiver. Denigration and deception are rarely permanent for lies are unsustainable, critical and burdensome on its host. We have seen temporal lies and propaganda that stood for decades or centuries but only to be mind-blowingly unveiled as fictitious. Notwithstanding, a lie may be temporal but the consequences may be permanent. Therefore, let us be truthful to those whose mandate we seek, for there will be absolutely no development in the absence of truth and genuineness. Covert and unrefuted li ..read more

  A REFLECTION ON THE SOCIO-HISTORIC RESEARCH TRIP TO SENEGAL (DAKAR, GORRE & CAYTOU) I was one of the University of The Gambia students who on the 07th of February 2023 under the tutelage of Dr Ensa Touray and Mr Baboucarr Mboob of the University of the Gambia left for Senegal in our quest to make a socio-historic fact finding with the theme CHEIKH ANTA DIOP: PAN AFRICANIST IN ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP. On the first day, as planned, we had a night rest at Diourbel, the capital of Diourbel region situated in the east of Thies. Relevantly to the theme, Thieytou, also spelled as Thiaytou ..read more

 UTG POLITIKO A WhatsApp status post whose source is unbeknownst to me has successfully influenced me to express myself about the ‘UTG Politics’. I deemed it necessary to express myself as well. Like Trent Reznor put it, “If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.” I will not break the rules, but I will express myself. Often, they say “do not involve in UTG politics”. My question is ‘what is politics?’. Andrew Heywood answered this before the year I was born. He said “Politics, in its broadest sense, is the activity through which people make, preser ..read more

WHY AN INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION Many people like saying that ‘investing in education is the best form of investment’, is this really the case. Well, you be the judge after reading this piece. According to Benjamin Franklin, “An investment in education always pays the highest returns”. In case you don’t know Benjamin Franklin, he is one of the founding fathers of the United States. He was leading and influential writer, philosopher, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and a diplomat. Wow! But everyone can be like him anyway.  Yes! And it’s no wonder that ..read more

Our enemy speak! I hate my enemy! Who do you think is my enemy? My enemy is knowledge, That curious man called knowledge. He likes people to love each other and understand life And I hate people to love each other and understand life. I want people follow me But he tell people not to follow me. Though we are brothers, But he never allow us to be brothers. Its name consist of nine letters, And mine too consists of nine letters. He allows people to insult me in his conference While I never even call for a conference. He wants me to die and go away from the people When I want to die with the ..read more