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Thinking of the character and quality of the Gambian intelligentsia and how it has measured up to its responsibilities to the nation and its people is something that has been a subject of discussion on our weekly board meeting. In fact we have even wondered if the Gambian intellectual class of men of letters, academicians, graduates, teachers, journalists, professionals and the enlightened sections of the upper middle-class are aware of themselves as an intelligentsia or a social strata with special characteristics and responsibilities setting them apart from the rest of society. A Gambian commentator once wrote that The Gambia has a collection of intellectuals but hardly any intelligentsia. But could this really be so? Perhaps the writer has brought in the element of functionalism in the definition, the usual confusion or deliberate mixing of a term and its concept.
Banjul, The Gambia Journal 5th July
Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus
Banjul, The Gambia Journal 3rd July
Researchers and policymakers must refocus their attention on finding a cure for HIV/AIDS to safeguard the future of mothers and the unborn children, 300,000 of whom are infected in Africa every year, a top UN official said at the Sirte AU summit in Libya.
Banjul, The Gambia Journal 3rd July
CILLS or the Permanent Inter- State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, with the support of the European Union, and the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture is organizing a three-day national validation forum on food security at the Seaview Hotel in Kololi. According to the organizers it was since the early 1960s that CILLS started to provide a framework for all the groups and actors of Sahelian societies to participate in the definition of their own vision of the future. He said this process culminated in the elaboration and validation of the strategic framework for sustainable food security in each of the nine CILLS member countries.
Banjul, The Gambia Journal 3rd July
In what looks like a tit for tat reaction to the protest notes sent by the United States and UK ambassadors on Wednesday, the Gambian state has raised the stakes by increase increasing its charges against the seven journalists. The two diplomats had written separate letters calling on government to free the journalists and to show more respect to the rights to free expression in the country. The same day the letters appeared on some of the Gambian newspapers the journalists were served with two more charges each with “conspiracy to publish seditious publication” and “criminal defamation.”
Banjul, The Gambia Journal 30th June
African leaders gathered at Sirte on Tuesday 30th June to discuss the final details in the integration of the New Partnership for Africa ’s Development (NEP A D) into the organs of the African Union (AU), with a new proposal for a treaty establishing NEPAD as an organ of the soon to be formed AU Authority.
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