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"Instant Success: Ten Keys to Personal Achievement" launched

Momodou Sabally had a compact full conference room by the time the able MC took the mike to open the ceremony with prayers. On the high table were seated Khadija Aja Tambajang (an entrepreneur and a columnist at Today newspaper), Honourable Sherif Gomez (Minister of Youth and Sports), Momodou Sabally (Author and Director of Budget at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs), Mr Abdoulie Touray (CEO Sahel Investments and Board member of the West African International School), Mrs Jay...

A Living Mirror - An Autobiography of Deyda Hydara

By Ahmed Alota and Demba Jawo Gunmen who are still at large killed the late Deyda Hydara, a Gambian journalist and publisher of The Point newspaper, in a drive-by shooting on the night of Thursday, 16 December 2004. In this very readable and absorbing account of his life, beliefs and achievements, two journalist colleagues who worked closely with the late Deyda Hydara provide an invaluable and well researched book for all those interested in contemporary African affairs, and in the...

Africa: We Owe it to Our Ancestors, Our Children, and Ourselves

by Prof. Michael Ba Banutu-Gomez Book reviewed by: Dr Pierre Gomez Senior Lecturer University of The Gambia This mighty work, Africa: We Owe it to Our Ancestors, Our Children, and Ourselves is composed of twelve chapters of which the first four focus on the pressing need for us Africans to identify ourselves within our culture and traditional values. Today, we readily accept the music, behaviour and medicine of others at the expense...

Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables

About the Author Mrs Adele Faye-Njie is a veteran home economist educator actively engaged in plying her craft to new heights. Her involvement in promoting and imparting culinary skills with emphasis on nutritional values in the sphere of indigenous dishes is widely known in both the formal and non-formal education sectors. Her career in teaching in both secondary and tertiary levels spans nearly three decades. Her close involvement in the promotion of women issues, in particular those...

THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE GAMBIA

THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE GAMBIA 60 of the most commonly seen butterflies are illustrated in colour with brief descriptive notes on each to aid identification in the field. These notes include colouration, flight characteristics, status, times of the year when they may be seen and their common larval food plants. Suitable for both professionals and those with just a passing interest in butterflies, this is the first in a series of guides describing the common flora and fauna of The...

A Taste of The Gambia: Local and International Recipes

Foreword (p. 8) I have written this cookery book to provide easy, speedy and efficient ways of preparing, cooking and serving delicious and nutritious Gambian meals. I also hope that the book will be a useful guide for the student of home economics, as it aims to provide an appropriate choice of menus using weal products for the purpose of examinations. Food is usually divided into three main groups: 1) Body building or flesh forming foods: proteins and mineral salts: 2) ...

Mandela's Other Children

In Mandela's Other Children, Baba Galleh Jallow invokes the intriguing concept of a Pan-African struggle against oppression. As he narrates his personal ordeals as a journalist working in an oppressive "shadow state" since 1994, Baba skillfully comments on some complex issues related to the African condition that are not readily obvious to the non-African observer. The pages of this book are littered with chilling accounts of how "orders from above" lead to arbitrary arrests and detentions,...

Proverbs of The Sene-Gambia

by Bamba Khan and Mariama Khan Every people have had its share of oral tradition long before the written manuscript immerged. Before there was the written word, there was the sound. Africa is said to be richer in its diversity and complexity when it comes to its people and ethnic groups. Africa has also nurtured and maintained a strong Oral tradition even after writing was introduced particularly in the western part of Africa. These living traditions have continued to survive in many...