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Professor Sulayman Nyang, Howard University, honoured

The Department of African Studies held a colloquium in honor of Professor Sulayman Nyang on Wednesday, November 16 at 2:30 pm in the auditorium of the Blackburn Center on the main campus of Howard University. This was followed by a reception at 6 pm in the Gallery Lounge, also in the Blackburn Center. At this reception, Professor Nyang was presented with a Life Time Achievement Award. Among the guest were Professor Ali Mazrui who delivered a tribute to Professor Nyang, Professor Mbye Cham of...

The Dreams of Katchikali: The Challenge of a Gambian National Literature

By Dr Tijan Sallah             The question of a Gambian national literature, the search for a distinct narrative rooted in the sensibilities and rituals of a place, has been as illusive as the search for a Gambian national identity.   What does it mean to be a Gambian; to be part of a population of about one million; to be dependent on a groundnuts or peanut monocrop economy; to be geographically surrounded, except for the coastline, by Senegal; to be the confluence of some four major...