December, the Secco, and what we lost along the way
[The Standard - The Gambia] - 15/12/2025
By Kebeli Demba Nyima The austere Boeotian poet Hesiod, writing in eighth-century BCE Greece, observed in Works and Days that labour has its appointed season and that reward follows effort not by chance, but by order. In rural Gambia, December was once the only month that truly belonged to the (…)
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