New Internationalist, October 1st, 1996
FARMING FEVER has hit the Gambia, as military ruler Captain Yahya Jammeh pursues his ambition to make the small West African country self-sufficient in food. In the beginning, Jammeh used public rallies to urge young men to return to agriculture, castigating them for neglecting the land and travelling to the coastal tourist areas, to Europe or the US, leaving their aged parents to farm up-river alone.
When his appeals to his country's young men to take an interest in hoeing and sowing fell on barren ground, Jammeh got tough. In June, bureaucrats were instructed not to issue any young men wi...
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