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Ebou Gaye is a Gambian currently residing in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Writers' Association of The Gambia and an alumnus of Cambridge Wolfson College. 

Ebou Gaye attended King Saud University, the Management Development Institute, the University of Cambridge and the Banjul postgraduate extension programme of the University of Limoges, in Saudi Arabia, The Gambia, the United Kingdom and France, respectively. He holds certificates, diplomas, a BA Hons degree and MA degrees in different disciplines.

Ebou Gaye has taught General Science, Literature, Islamic Studies, Arabic, French and English for three years. Besides, he has worked as Administrative Officer with the Gambia Government for five years, serving at different ministries- the last being the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs.

Ebou Gaye has written over 150 articles on various issues and a novel entitled Patience Is Accompanied By Smile. Fake Love is his second novel. He won the Outstanding Features Writer Award of the Daily Observer newspaper of The Gambia in 2001. Prior to that, he was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Senegalese Students’ Association in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for contributing articles in its Arabic magazine, Al-amal. Ebou Gaye served as a member of Editorial Board of club magazines while studying at Gambia High School and King Saud University.

Published works

	The protagonist of the novel, Ya Rose, quits her job in her native country and travels to the United Kingdom to seek greener pastures. There, she finds life extremely hard contrary to her expectations. Consequently, she resorts to luring men into relationships with the aim of manoeuvring her way out of the awkward situation in which she finds herself.  The book is multi-themed, touching on marriage, religion, female circumcision, politics, journalism, etc. For more information, click here.		Patience is Accompanied by Smile was published in Banjul in 1999. It is a novel of 103 pages. It is the story of Sulayman, the narrator, who recounts the different obstacles he was confronted with during his marriage and school days in The Gambia and Saudi Arabia.