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Elections of a New Executive Committee

The Interim Executive Committee is preparing to handover the baton of leadership of the association to a new executive on the day of the launching. The two events will be conducted on the same day thus seeing a new and first executive of the Writers' Association of The Gambia coming to being. Long Live WAG!!!

The Writers' Association of The Gambia to be launched

WAG's launching has been slated for 10 April 2010. The Interim Executive Committee is looking forward to a great event in its launching. Members are urged to officialise their membership by paying their dues. More information to come soon...

Crying in the rain by Lamin S. Darboe

Rice harvesting was at its peak, and all the women were busy trying to get their rice from the fields. I was already nine months old in my mother’s stomach. Then on one Thursday afternoon, just before sunset, as narrated by my grandmother, my mother gave birth to me. “I heard a groan under the baobab tree that stood at the foot of the rice fields. I rushed there to find out what was happening, and not to my surprise, I was welcomed by the crying of a beautiful baby.” my grandmother Jankey said....

Two Gambian Poets nominated for DUBAI

The Interim Executive Committee of the Writers' Association of The Gambia, during an executive meeting presided over by Mrs Ralphina da Almeida,  nominated two poets to attend the Dubai International Poetry Conference in Dubai scheduled to take place in March 2010. These two poets are Ms Mathilda Johnson and Justice Almami Fanding Taal. The selection has not been confirmed yet but these poets will represent the Writers' Association of The Gambia for several days in DUBAI. More information...

Western Domination, Imperialism and Exploitation

Dr Pierre Gomez In its 19 November 1951 edition, The Gambia Echo made a survey of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst’s book entitled A Forgotten Country where, making reference to her knowledge of the horn of Africa, she describes the behaviour of the Italian colons towards the people of Somaliland. She evokes in this work the method used by the Italian government, just after the Berlin Conference (1885), to annex this part of Africa. The slavery and the ghastly racist strategies developed by ...

Why not Black? - a poem by Cherno Omar Barry

Why not Black? By Cherno Omar Barry Slippery eel joins the world it’s like Youth emerging smiling Crying for the pleasurable pains of the earth An argument she has just begun That which is between Good and Evil Good reigns On years of culture and rupture Blooms her to a smashing rosebud Epoch of joy and youthful age Savouring the juices Full of happiness In pearls of laughter Years mount fast the ladder of age New stage develops Men, both the old and...

The Lady of the River by Cherno Omar Barry

For several weeks now, Brima Touray has been acting very strangely. He is often absent minded when his clients come to make an order and when they attract his attention, he seems to awaken from a reverie. Brima’s wife, Salimata is very worried. She has been hearing what people have been saying about her husband and it worries her so much. How can some people insinuate that her husband is possessed by witches? Or is he slowly going mad? However much she denies these allegations she still...

Children’s Text Messages to God: A musical in two acts

How many of us can remember our childhood days and the nostalgic feelings of innocence, of false judgement and particularly of joy and sorrow in a simple world made complicated by adults. Children’s Text Messages to God brings us back to those youthful days and revives our experience of joyful childhood and the old familiar clichés we were so attached to. Six children in The Gambia meet for a “sleep over” at a friend’s house. Their imagination is triggered when the adults in the house...

Dr Peters Laid to Rest

Dr Lenrie Peters has finally been laid to rest at the Banjul Cemetery, on Wednesday 3rd June 2009 at around 18h30 GMT. Between 15h45 and 18h00, his life and works were celebrated at Dr Florence Mahoney's residence. People from all walks of life arrived there to pay their last homage to a great man. His business partner and close friend, Dr S. J. Palmer, ably coordinated the activities in his honour which consisted of prayers, tributes, poetry reading and songs. It took great mastery of...

A literary giant has fallen

By Cherno Omar Barry, Lecturer, University of The Gambia Mark Anthony said, in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, that the good is oft interred with the bones of good men but in Dr Lenrie Peters’ case, the good will live for eternity in the annals of Gambian literary history. The good sown by Dr Lenrie Peters in the fertile soil of the Gambian literary field has grown and germinated well. These are the proud children of Peters and on whom he has bestowed a worthy inheritance. Introduction Dr Lenrie...