The Microphone Was On: Gambia's Tribal Undercurrent, Nine Years Later – The Standard Newspaper

The Microphone Was On: Gambia's Tribal Undercurrent, Nine Years Later – The Standard Newspaper

By Abdoulie Fatty On 31 March 2017, barely three months into the New Gambia, I wrote in The Standard Newspaper an article titled “Gambia’s Tribal Undercurrent.” The euphoria of defeating Yahya Jammeh was still fresh. Yet underneath all that excitement, something bothered me. Jammeh was gone, but the tribalism he deliberately stoked remained. I started that article with a personal experience. I had opened a bank account and listed Ebrima Baba Gal…