
From Cairo to Cornell
The Malcolm X effect of Gambian-British activist Momodou Taal.

The Malcolm X effect of Gambian-British activist Momodou Taal.

Maky Madiba Sylla is a militant filmmaker excavating iconic Africans whose legacies he believes need to be known widely — like the singer Laba Sosseh.

As some Gambians speak before the country's TRC, the testimonies create a space for their compatriots to express ideas about rights, dignity and social values.

This is the first opportunity for Gambians since independence in 1965 to have a broad-ranging public conversation on its future.

How the Jammeh regime reproduced power in Gambia for more than two decades.

"White person!," people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan."

An archive - stretching from 1820 to 1960 - of civil, police, and criminal records in colonial Banjul.

There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.
