APRIL 10/11 (Excerpt From The Dictator Is Us) – The Standard Newspaper

Excerpt from THE BADLANDS by Preston & Child

August 2020; precise date uncertain The woman paused and raised her head, looking over the wavering landscape toward the horizon. She blinked, then blinked again, dazzled by the light. As far as she could see lay a land dotted with hoodoo rock formations: spires and domes of rock, giant boulders balancing on slender stems, trembling and ghostly in the heat. This madness of rock and sand rose into a burning sky dominated by the implacable sun. Sh…

APRIL 10/11 (Excerpt From The Dictator Is Us) – The Standard Newspaper

By Alhagie Saidy Barrow In the twenty-two years of Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship, no single event has been more horrific than the killing and maiming of innocent schoolchildren in April 2000. This would be the first time that Gambians with no political affiliation were murdered for simply demanding government accountability… Dictators work hard to project an image of a peaceful, stable, and efficiently-run country and work even harder to propagate…