By Arfang Madi Sillah, Washington DCDr.
Assan Jallow’s recent article endorsing Dr. Mamadou Tangara for the position of Secretary General of the Commonwealth serves as a striking illustration of intellectual pretense, shallow analysis, and sycophantic drivel.
The article reads less like a scholarly assessment and more like the desperate sales pitch of a second-hand motor salesman, intent on closing a deal at any cost.
Jallow’s work is an exercise in intellectual chicanery, a glowing hagiography, lacking the depth and evidence that should underpin any serious endorsement—If intellectual mediocrity were an Olympic event, Jallow’s endorsement would surely take home the gold. Instead of offering a robust, evidence-based endorsement, Jallow’s article resembles the intellectual equivalent of a hollow drum—loud and attention-grabbing, but utterly empty upon closer examination—it panders to political amb