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agi Yorro Jallow
Alagi Yorro Jallow was the co-proprietor and managing editor of the
banned Independent, a newspaper he founded in the West African state
of The Gambia. In 1999, he served as a corr...view moreAlagi Yorro Jallow was the co-proprietor and managing editor of the
banned Independent, a newspaper he founded in the West African state
of The Gambia. In 1999, he served as a correspondent for the British
Broadcasting Corporation. Since his journalism career began in 1987,
Jallow has also worked as a correspondent for the International Press
Institute and as a consultant to the London based free-expression
organization, Article 19. At the Independent, Jallow became known for
his editorials exposing the repressive government of President Yayha
Jammeh, who took over in 1994.
Jallow is twice winner, in 2000 and 2004, of the prestigious Hellman\
Hammet award administered by Human Rights Watch for persecuted
writers. Jallow became the first Gambian journalist to receive this
prestigious award. In 2003, he was a runner-up for the World
Association of Newspapers’ Golden Pen Award. In 2005, Jallow
received the International Press Freedom Award presented by Canadian
Journalists for Free Expression ( CJFE) for “his uncompromising
and fearless efforts to promote press freedom in The Gambia, despite
numerous obstacles.”
In 2007 he was the first Gambian to become a Nieman Fellow at the
prestigious Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Jallow also became an Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy
School of Government, a program in public policy and management,
and he was awarded a Master of Public Administration by Harvard’s
Kennedy School of Government. He was a Fellow at the National
Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C., where he researched
and wrote “The Gambia Media and Militocracy under Jammeh,
1994-2012.” Jallow also served as consultant for the Mo Ibrahim Index
of African Governance for two years.
Jallow’s research interests include West Africa, African media studies,
democratic governance, human rights violations, asylum and
immigration, and other social justice issues as well as Pan-Africanism.
Jallow is a lecturer at the Department of General Management, Martin
de Tours School of Management and Economics, at the prestigious
Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand.view less
Books by agi Yorro Jallow
Delayed Democracy:How Press Freedom Collapsed in Gambia: A Proposition for Research in the Gambian Journalism History 1965-2013