The 96-year-old who defied a ban on female genital cutting
Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West…
The Gambian man who took on a tyrant and made history
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade…
‘It’s never enough’: Senegal goldminers surviving from one nugget to the next
On a stopover in Mali on his way to Libya, Bakary Jammeh…
Yusupha Mbye: Left paralysed after being shot by ex-Gambian President’s security personnel
Yusupha Mbye sits opposite me in his wheelchair in a reflective mood…
Fatou Bensouda: The Gambian woman who hunts tyrants
As chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in the Hague, Fatou…
Mustapha Sallah: ‘I almost died migrating to Europe. Now I am warning other Gambians about it’
Mustapha Sallah was in trouble. He had hoped to be in Europe…
