GAM WRIT ERS

The Magic Calabash, a novel of 161 pages was published in 1998 in Banjul. This novel narrates the misfortunes of Erubani, an office boy at the Land Registry, who is sacked because of the pressure of the World Bank on the government of the country. Unemployed, living with a young woman he has not yet married, accused of theft by his aunt, Erubani is just accumulating problems. Nevertheless, one comes to realize that he can find money with the help of an object…..a magic object. But he will face one disaster after the other like in a nightmare. It will be republished in 2001 for the secondary schools by Macmillan The Gambia.