MANDELA’S OTHER CHILDREN: THE DIARY OF AN AFRICAN JOURANLIST by Baba Galleh Jallow is a must read for all Gambians, regardless of political affiliation. Everyone should endeavor to get hold of a copy. The book gives a clear picture of Jammeh’s tyranny and serves as a clear testimony to Jammeh’s paranoia and arrogance.  It documents not only Baba’s experiences, but also such events as the murder of Ousman Koro Ceesay, the massacre of school children on April 10/11 2000, the closure of Citizen FM radio, the attempted burning of Radio 1 FM and the murder of Deyda Hydara on December 16, 2004, among other things. 

As I read the book, I did not know whether to cry for my dear country or to laugh at the absurdity of the so -called security officers and their “we just following orders from above” nonsense. What I however, got from it is Baba’s courage and determination not to be cowered and bought by Jammeh and his clique. This book will go down as the most vivid documentation of Jammeh’s brutality against the press in particular and The Gambia in general. It is all very revealing of the workings of the NIA because it is told by someone who has spent many days and nights detained behind the walls of their “dracula’s castle” 

If you are a Jammeh supporter, reading this book might help open your eyes to the true colors of the APRC/AFPRC regimes. If you are a Jammeh critic, this book will help you understand the dictatorial resolve of Jammeh and his henchmen to stifle dissenting views and to stay in power by any means necessary. 

To the journalists, there is no better narration of their plight. The book’s publication could not have come at a better time when our colleagues Fatou Jaw Manneh, Lamin Fatty etc are being paraded through the kangaroo courts on trumped up charges, and the disappearances of Chief Manneh and others. 

As is cogently put in the book’s back page description, Mandela’s other Children “is a story of heroic resistance, stubborn defiance, and a steely determination to assert and preserve endangered sovereignties by threatened social entities.” This book will provide you with incontrovertible facts about Jammeh’s tyranny. 

Baba Galleh Jallow was editor-in-chief of the Daily Observer and Founder Editor and CEO of the Independent Newspaper. He holds a BA in Political Science, a Masters in Liberal Studies and is currently a PhD student in History at the University of California, Davis. The book can be obtained from http://www.freegambia.net/shop.html. Baba’s other books are Dying for My Daughter, Angry Laughter, and The Anatomy of Powercracy and Other Essays. 



"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
 
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