Publisher’s Note - Yahya Jammeh’s Ignominious End
Just when various parts of the world were beginning to pick out Africa’s efforts at institutionalising democratic values in governance citing recent cases of smooth and stable transition of power after election losses by some incumbent blossoming presidents, Yahya Jammeh has cast a slur on the continent’s profile.
Jammeh, who shot his way to power in 1994 and has ruled the nation of 1.8 million for a generation since, made himself a bad dream in his country Gambia and indeed Africa until he was shown the way out of the corridors of power. He had sworn to rule Gambia for "a billion years".
