History

With the dawn of each “Independence” anniversary on February 18th, we, as Gambians, blow horns, sing, drum and cheer to celebrate “Independence Day.” This year shall be no exception. Independence ...

According to a recent survey by Centre for Policy Studies U.K., just over half of adults (under 30) have cut off individuals because of their political opinion. Cancel culture has ...

Time takes us away too early to compute the codes of life, so we must learn from history to gather the codes to help grope our way into the future.Without ...

Introduction WARSAW, Poland — The Russian ambassador to Poland was summoned by the Polish Foreign Ministry on December after Russian President Vladimir Putin repeatedly blamed Poland in past days for ...

Cold war dawned a new era of conflicts and crises. The danger of crises was looming during whole period owing to the bifurcation of the world in Soviet led East ...

The Fall of Berlin Wall on November 09, 1989 changed the face of Europe in particular and the world in General. The event has a great political ramification because this ...

On Sunday, September 1, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologized to the victims of German aggression in 1939 at a ceremony in Wielun, a small Polish town where the first bombs ...

From 431 to 404 before Christ Era, Athens and Sparta fought a bloody war, known as the Peloponnesian War. Thucydide, an Athenian thinker and politician, wrote a book in which ...

Introduction In the first part of this brief history, we broadly described the numerous victories of the West. Indeed, at the end of the nineteenth century, the West became the ...

What is the West ? At the middle of the fifteenth century (around 1450), the West was isolated. It was surrounded by a muslim-dominated Mediterranean Sea, Anatolia and Balkan region. ...