Op-Ed: A Competition of Ideas

By R. Carl Paschall, U.S. Ambassador to The Gambia For the first time in more than a generation, Gambians are presented with an intimidation-free election, having embraced the democratic freedoms ushered in after they courageously cast their marbles in December 2016 to demand peacefully at the ballot box...

November 3, 2021Editorial, Opinions
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Capitalism Kills: African Lives And Identity In The US, Brazil And Europe Yesterday, Today And Beyon

It is fundamental to note that, Transatlantic Slave Trade (TaST) —the ‘legitimised buying and selling of Senegambians— 15th-19th century) was organised as capitalistic from the outset, enslaving African captives for the profit of slave merchants, plantation owners, European political institutions and markets. As it already...

August 31, 2021Analysis
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