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Gambian Literature and Writings

The following information on Gambian Writers is meant to be shared with those interested in Gambian authors and their works. Many thanks to Dr Jean Dominique Pénel, the coordinator and director of the research and to whom this is dedicated, Dr Mamadou Tangara, (Coordinator, The Gambia-EC projects), Dr Pierre Gomez, (Senior Lecturer, University of The Gambia) and Mr Saihou Bah (Principal, Sheikh Mass Kah School)

Gaye, Ebou Ibrahim (1968- )

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Friday, August 22, 2008

Ebou Ibrahim Gaye was born in The Gambia in 1968. He obtained his GCE A’ levels in 1989 and that very year he started teaching up to 1990. From 1993 to 1997, he attended King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He graduated with a B.A. honours and obtained a language proficiency Certificates in French. Back in The Gambia, he went back to the teaching field before joining the Department of State for Agriculture in 1999. From 1999 to date, Ebou Gaye has published more than hundred articles in the Daily Observer and other newspapers in the country. He is still writing. He is presently pursuing his Masters degree in French with the Université de Limoges through P.A.D.E.F (the French Technical Assistance).

Patience is Accompanied by A 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.