observer.gm - Until recently, that is, before the intervention of the Gambian leader, President Yahya Jammeh, transfiguring the general perception towards farming in the Gambia, it was mind-boggling to see Gambians take to the land voluntarily. Even more stupefying is for those we in the Gambia prefer calling "semester" to forfeit the largely materialistic western life they live in the west to take up farming as their preoccupation. Well, this is exactly what one Yahya Touray has vowed to do. In his early...» view full story