Sanjally Bojang: The farmer who said no to President Jimmy Carter and the kingmaker of Gambian politics

[The Standard - The Gambia] - 17/10/2025
By Gaia S Child When President Jimmy Carter, the world’s most famous peanut farmer, invited him to America, Sanjally Bojang smiled and declined. “It is too difficult for a farmer to leave his crops and his land,” he said. That single sentence from his farm in Kembujeh captured everything about (…)
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