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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...

5th Conference of Afro-Asian Writers, 4-9 September, 1973, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, U. S. S. R.

ADDRESS FROM GAMBIA Presented by Lenrie Peters Mr. Chairman, Fellow writers, I bring you warm greetings from the people of the Gambia, and in particular from the Gambia Writers' Club. Our club, like our new independent state, is a young one which came into being with three aims in view: (a) To encourage Gambian writers by providing an outlet for other creations - we now run a quarterly Magazine. (b) To provide a forum for writers to exchange ideas through discussions, seminars,...