Discourse II 

Hope and Disappointment in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Political Theology: Eclipse of the Liberal Spirit-Part II

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Somalia on the brink of disaster, warns Concern Worldwide

Concern launches nationwide fundraising appeal to help tackle drought emergency.

Concern Worldwide, Ireland’s largest humanitarian agency, is today warning that the current drought in the Horn of Africa, which is already affecting 10 million people, and has been described as the worst food crisis facing the world right now, is reaching a tipping point.

UNHCR Photo

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Amnesty Int’l. Petitions Jammeh Gov’t. over arrests of civilians

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Human Rights

UK-based Gambian lawyer condemns detention of Islamic cleric, Manjang

—says detention unconstitutional

“Let Oustass Ismaila Manjang go”

By: LJ Darboe, UK

He is a father, a husband, an Imam, an Islamic educator, and an overall community spirited human being. A Gambian of exemplary public integrity, a promoter of social justice, a consistent defender of truth, and a person who contributed immensely in placing Gunjur Dabanani on our modern national map. This is the Oustass Ismaila Manjang I know for upwards of four decades!

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Kairaba: Book Review of Sir Dawda K. Jawara’s Autobiography

Kairaba is a family saga that begins with exodus from the remains of war-torn Mali Empire in the 19^th Century and ends in resettlement of the Jawara clan in The Gambia, first in Kaur, and then Barajally Su Baa. It is also the history of a country and its peoples caught in the throes of colonial subjugation, the Sonninke-Marabout Wars, World War I, and World War II. Thus, Kairaba is at once a lucid

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Discourse

Hope and Disappointment in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Political Theology: Eclipse of the Liberal Spirit

By **Floyd W. Hayes, III, Senior Lecturer Department of Political Science, The John Hopkins University

He sensed how Negroes had been made to live in but not of the land of their birth, how the injunctions of an alien Christianity and the strictures of white laws had evoked in them the very longings and desires that that religion and law had been designed to stifle. 

                              Richard Wright, The Outsider(i)

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Human Rights

Gambia’s rights groups petition Jammeh’s regime over ex-minister & others’ continuous detention

The Executive committee of the Coalition for Change-Gambia, in collaboration with the Gambian civil society organizations around the world, call on all Gambians, friends of The Gambia and Human Rights groups around the world to join us in condemning the unlawful arrest and continued detention of Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh and others.

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 As Dr. Amadou Janneh languishes in detention, GMC calls it illegal

Statement on the unlawful detention of Dr. Amadou Scatred Janneh

Further to our formal expression of concern delivered on the 10th June 2011 to the Minster of the Interior and Minister of Justice of The Gambia Government, GMC joins the call of our citizens, civil society organizations and Friends of The Gambia, for the immediate unconditional release of Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh from unlawful custody.

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Gambia’s Judiciary under fire

—As Political Party unveils Litigation Chief’s criminal path in Nigeria

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in-Chief

In yet another shameful, still predictable development, the opposition Gambia Moral Congress party under the stewardship of, lawyer Mai Fatty has asked The Government of The Gambia to send the beleaguered judiciary’s Director of Special Litigations on administrative leave pending investigations of serious abuse of office and conduct incompatible with the functions of a judicial officer.

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Special report

Gambia’s soccer legend, Biri Njie, receives high honors in Washington, DC
If the ceremony honoring Biri that last Sunday at the Roy Lester Stadium in the Maryland suburb of Rockville is anything to go by; then the Gambian American Association (GAA) under the dynamic stewardship of Pa Samba Jow(Coach) and the thousands of Gambian Diasporans who made it to Maryland from all corners of The United States and beyond have given the  soccer icon the fitting exodus he deserves, magnanimous to say the least.

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