Commonwealth of Nations: Art of Survival

... any tangible progress in reforming and strengthening the Commonwealth, the results are largely negative: waning interest in the Commonwealth among most of its members and, moreover, the loss of one of them. In 2013, the Republic of the Gambia, in West Africa, dropped out of the Commonwealth, accusing Great Britain of neo-colonialism and alleging that the latter, according to the current Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, was funding the opposition in the country . The reason for this negativity may also lie in the Commonwealth’s binary structure ...