Ngenarr-Yassin Jeng, Esq
Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of The Republic of The Gambia.
Thanking God, my family and friends for all the love and support.
An honor to have graduated from
@GeorgetownLaw
, the biggest (and best) law school.
LL.M International Legal Studies with a Certificate in International Human Rights Law
#HoyaSaxa
5 years ago, I toured
@GeorgetownLaw
& fell in love. Now, I am an LLM candidate & first Gambian admitted into the Leadership & Advocacy for Women in Africa Fellowship program.
Beyond proud of myself, grateful for this opportunity & everyone that has contributed towards it.
#HOYA
Congratulations to
@miss_petite_j
for being selected for the prestigious
@StateIVLP
in the U.S. Ngenarr, a young Gambian lawyer, gender activist and community leader, will take part in the Multi-Regional Project, “NGO Management II."
Watching Dancing for the devil and learning Marque Richardson form Dear White People showed up with a bat to save his friend from a cult and from getting sexually assaulted. Now I love him even more.
Legi nak, I need
@TheGambiaFF
to start coordinating with nawettan and zonal teams. Organise training camps and tryouts, pick best players, build the teams and junior teams to serve as feeders. Work on comms to market to the big leagues. Don't let the momentum die down.
Dear Gambians,
I need you all to want better, know better & do better for yourselves. To do that you need to educate yourselves. There is so much more that we want for our country & to achieve them we need to question our leaders about their plans & policies to develop Gambia.
The number of anti-Palestinian Nigerians and Ghanaian needs to be looked at, especially for populations fighting their own oppression and are supposed to be enlightened.
If you wanna know how meti Gambia is just ask young people 25 upwards how many assets and property they own. Or how many schools they have gotten into but can't enrol because they can't afford to pay the balance of whatever scholarship they have.
Dear Gambian women,
Please do not wait until you are in Labour to be posting and looking for blood donors. Get at least 2 donors prior and have them on standby for when you go into Labour. This mitigating measure will save time & maybe even your life.
Why do you want women to pick between a career and family when they can have both? Why do you want women to just sit at home when they can literally have the best of both worlds?
I have been avoiding social media for about 2 weeks because I am busy and I just knew, with everything that I have peeped in between, that people are making stupid comments. Personally, I am good unfriending a bunch of people since y'all want to move mad.
Charge d’Affaires Shelly Seaver congratulates four young Gambian leaders for being selected to take part in various projects of the 2019 International Visitor Leadership Program in the United States.
@StateIVLP
@ECAatState
Things you can do to support women's causes:
1) Donate to an organisation
2) Push for policy reform
3) Not be a rape apologist/misogynist
4) Don't victim blame
5) Engage your community
6) Educate yourself on issues
@thiiothio
@MamyKa9
If you treat the child like he is in trouble you won't get answers. What he needs is love, patience and understanding. Let him feel like you are on his side and just want to help him so he will be comfortable enough to share but screaming, hitting and pressuring won't work.
This is my sister
@JengSohnasi
. A mechanical engineer and force to be reckoned with. These are pics of her building a car with her friends in her final year of uni.
#BalanceforBetter
#IWD2019
Just wanted to say I am humbled by all the love here. I truly appreciate you all. This journey was a crazy and beautiful one (will explain). I would not trade the last 10 months for anything. But yeah, I love you guys. Thank you all so much.
Girl's get sent away from school for the length of skirts, their hair, for dancing or knowing stuff. Not to mention other factors like periods, FGM, child marriage etc. There are structures in place to keep girls away from school which is why this matter is very serious.
Gambian men are confidently texting into a radio show about how prostitution is immoral and the ladies should be arrested but they forget their bumster brothers are in that same category.
Gambian lawyers, please apply to Georgetown's women's law & public policy program. It's a year long Leadership & Advocacy for Women in Africa fellowship and comes with an LLM. Happy to provide information and answer any questions.
Some of you are full of shit. Out here on your high horses acting like you have never done anything incriminating when you have sent pics, videos, gotten naked with a person that's not your spouse or sexting on a regular. But want to kill us with talk about this video
Gambians are so obsessed with accents tho. If the person is forcing it aferram la. Yes, I know it can sound funny but if you know what the person is saying what's the problem? Also quit telling people that speak proper English they are "slanging" or they are not from here. 🙄
The audacity of men to stand at the national assembly to say women are not harmed by
#FGM
and those who say they are affected are lying is so crazy to me.
#EndFGM220
Absolutely floored and honored by this nomination. I am grateful for it and the strength to do this work.
Now, who do I have to fight for leaving the hyphen out of my name?
This is a good time to remind people to get tested for STIs & get help if you are sexually active. Know your status & tell your partner(s). Use condoms, don't be pressured into sex & remember you can get them though oral too. Nothing to be ashamed of but be safe out there.
It's a bitter sweet moment because we should have never been in this position to begin with. Our work continues! Let us engage our communities and ensure the law is implemented.
#EndFGM220
Did it while working 3 jobs, wrote a whole thesis (in addition to 15 courses) and served as LLM delegate at the Student Bar Association. Lmao I'm an over achiever and Allah really showed me just how much I am capable of this year.
If one thing is for certain, most people don't know what rape is. Sex without consent is rape. Sex with a minor, even if you think they gave consent, is rape. This is what your little friend is charged with. Having sex with a minor.
I love seeing women and girls happy. Every time I see graduation and wedding pictures; success stories and achievements even birthdays I feel so happy for them.
Guys bulen ken nahh, Gambia dafa over meti and this is coming from me with all my privilege. You will work your ass off to make a little decent money but by the time govt tax you and you pay bills, amulor nix. Ak sunj halis bu bon.
Senegalese Twitter quoting me with your private accounts to insult me, have some shame please lol.
#FreeSenegal
, stop the oppression but
#Justice4AdjiSarr
. Maako wahh & I refuse to sideline the rape allegations. You can come to Banjul and fight me loves.
The truth is false accusations hardly ever happen. They are almost like a myth but have been perpetuated by misogynists as the norm. They just want you to doubt victims, do not fall for it
TW: homophobia, corpse desecration
Dying and having to explain to Allah why you unearthed a corpse and burnt it, two things that are prohibited in Islam does not scare you? Evil people
Now since you Gambians love to victim blame let's get somethings clear;
1. Claiming the victim was sexually active doesn't negate rape.
2. Having someone else's baby doesn't mean you were not raped by a third party.
3. A dead child doesn't absolve you of rape.
Also, please hire young people and when you do, pay them their fair share. Don't downplay their work, qualifications, yefi mboka etc. Just pay them. If you recommend them for a job, advocate for them to get paid fairly. Volunteering is good y amna fum emm
Just a little reminder:
1. Brush your teeth
2. Use deodorant
3. Keep your saliva to yourself
4. Let's be considerate of our non Muslim people i.e no blasting waareh at extra loud volumes especially between 4-6am. Wasalam
"I hope you are ready to stay single"
And then what? Looooool people love to act like being single is a curse. No one ever died from being single and some of us are very comfortable being by ourselves. We will be just fine regardless
"They are not like our mothers" lol you just hate that many Gambian women refuse to limit themselves to the boxes you designed for them. We will continue to stand up for each other, demand our rights and be super loud about it. YOU are the problem, not us.
Anyway shout out to young Gambians because many of you all stay grinding despite difficult circumstances. Let me not even get to the huge chunk that continue to volunteer to help in community development
We need to have an honest conversation about grooming. Grown men dating children and grooming them in toxic relationships thereby inflicting physical and mental trauma which then leads to Stockholm syndrome
#EndGBV
#EndVAW
#Gambiana
You want to protest at court and attack public officials doing their jobs lol. You don't have actual causes to fight for like power, water, cost of living, actual abuse of women etc. You people are really not ok.
I hear someone is calling us "half baked feminists" because we dare to write that government is interfering in a rape case & don't know whether it is "alleged rape or not" lol.
Tell him us feminists nyuneh, FUCK HIM AND ALL RAPE APOLOGISTS xx
‘Someone with a DSD cannot help the way they were born but they can choose not to cheat; they can choose not to take medals from women; they can choose not to cause injury.’ ✍️
@suzanne_moore
What's funny is you religious people talking about the man should be forgiven or sutura-ed. You have no shame or moral compass and are a disgrace. You continue to attack Sai and feminists because you hate women. Period.