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Photo Essay: The "No to Back Way to Europe" Concert
04/16/2015 14:12
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Getting Together for a Cause, With Music As Key
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Opinion: We Must Continue Educating Our Young About the Dangers of the 'Back Way'
04/16/2015 13:56
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
By Invitation
We Must Continue Educating Our Young About the Dangers of the "Back Way"
By Musa Manneh
I think one of the key reasons why these potential migrants, from Africa and other places, decide to take the back way to get to Europe and America is that some of them have...
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News: FoB Rallies the Community Against the 'Back Way Journey'
04/16/2015 13:54
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
As Deaths Mount on Back Way to Europe, a Community Rallies to Protect Its Young
Using the Power of Music to Spread the Word
By My Basse Staff
The spate of young deaths on the back road to European shores have left Gambian civic groups, not least Friends of Basse,...
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Jawara: Founding Father
03/23/2015 19:54
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Founding Father
In his book "Kairaba," Jawara comes out as a pragmatist during the push for Independence.
By Cherno Baba Jallow
With countries such as Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana, Guinea gaining autonomy from colonial rule in the 1950s, demands for Independence in Africa...
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About Us/FoB Vice President Maimuna Sey Urges 2015 Membership Renewal
02/17/2015 22:58
Friday, January 16, 2015
Friends of Basse Vice President Ms. Maimuna Sey
Dear Team,
On behalf of the Friends of Basse Executive, let me take this opportunity to wish you and your families a Happy New Year filled with good health, happiness and prosperity. As...
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Photo Essay/New York City Rush Hour
12/10/2014 21:44
Friday, October 17, 2014Life in the Harried LaneTurning the Lens on the Morning and Evening Rush Hours in The Big ApplePhotos By: Cherno Baba Jallow42nd Street/Times Square/ManhattanTo write to the author, please send your comments to: chernobjallow@hotmail.com
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News/The Death of an Accountant
09/06/2014 11:45
Sunday, August 10, 2014
In Cherno Alieu Jallow's Death, Gambian Financial Sector Has "Lost a Great Asset"
By My Basse News Staff
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Cherno Alieu Jallow, a managing partner in the Banjul-based consulting firm DT Associates,...
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Hon. Alh. Bubacarr Michael Baldeh: 1953-2014
08/10/2014 18:45
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Hon. Alh. Bubacarr Baldeh's Son Thanks All
Hon. Bubacarr Michael Baldeh 1953-2014
On behalf of my family, the Basse Mansajang Kunda community, Upper River Region and The Gambia at large, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you all for your...
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Analysis/2014 World Cup
07/13/2014 18:03
Thursday, June 12, 2014
The Africans: How Will They Fare in Brazil?
By Valentine Kabby Banjakey, My Basse Sports Editor
The twentieth edition of the FIFA World Cup starts today. Later in the day, the Brazilian Selecao stars, as hosts, will walk out on to the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo taking on...
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Basse History Debated
Editorial
10/11/2009 13:56
The Past Explained
Sometimes, in the silence of your own solitude, you find yourself lost in picturesque thoughts, in wonderland. Your mind is talking to itself. Imaginations are running aplenty. If you have a fondness for nostalgia, then you cruise down memory lane, reflecting on, say, childhood,...
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Basse: A History Buried in Syllables
10/11/2009 13:49
By Ebrima Kamara
"Deficiency in our languages has effects beyond not being able to speak them; it affects our sense of history, our sense of reality and our worldview in general." - Ebrima Kamara
Please allow me to say a word concerning the depiction of the history of Basse, which has...
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Response
10/11/2009 13:40
By Cherno Baba Jallow
I guess now we are all agreed that this debate has gotten really interesting. I am sure it has been a learning experience, at least for some of us keen about history and the historical. But lest the importance and purpose of this debate collapse in a constellation of...
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Response
10/11/2009 13:23
By Momodou Baldeh
It seems you’ve succeeded in igniting an interesting debate between Cherno Baba Jallow and me. I would like to respond to some of the questions and observations he raised in his last posting.
He is right that I’ve never come across a Samba Sowe throughout my research...
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Who Founded Basse?
10/11/2009 13:21
Since this is a website for and about Basse, we thought it fitting to publish the debate on Basse history first carried by the Gainako newspaper in 2007. The edited versions have been reprinted here with the expressed permission of Gainako and the participants.
By Cherno Baba...
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The main highway into town.
School kids playing at the newly established SOS Children's Village
Basse Car Park