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Gambia lacks moral rights to condemn neo-colonialism

Last week, The Gambia withdrew from the British-led Commonwealth bloc, a 54-member grouping including Britain and most of its former colonies.

The reason President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia gave as the collective rationale for withdrawing was that this Anglophile interstate organisation is a vestige of colonialism and hence neo-colonial in its political orientation.

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