Eminent minister, dedicated evangelist and ardent educator based in The Gambia, Pastor Augustine Erskine, Sunday launched three theological works that have become instant classics in African theological writing and literature, as members and the fellowship embrace the prodigious works with much elation. The book launch, held on Sunday 23 February 2025 at the Evangel Assemblies…
The general thesis of this piece is to argue that as far as being an industry leader in any art form, the artist must strike a balance between critical and commercial success. The more your work combines these two, the more culturally significant your legacy becomes. It is easier to define commercial success, at its…
In the Autumn of 2019, the left leaning The Guardian newspaper of England started to publish a list of 100 best of culture of the twenty-first century https://www.theguardian.com/culture/series/best-culture-of-the-21st-century-so-far/2019/sep/16/all . I looked forward to reading the first list, ‘The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century”, and I even felt a rush of adrenaline as…
The Gambian Nollywood award winning actor, Musa Darboe, has arrived in the country from Nigeria ahead of his homecoming award celebration to be held 25 January this year at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre. The award winning actor was welcomed at the weekend at the Banjul International Airport by Musa Suso, the…
I probably started considering lists and rankings as it relates to pop culture when I came across a Premiere Magazine (UK edition) in the mid-nineties that reviewed Hollywood by decades as a celebration of the centennial of cinema (December 1995 from the Lumiere Brothers’ invention). They picked one male and female star for each decade…
