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Professor David Gamble - Reactions to his demise

Dr Tijan Sallah (Economist and Poet/Writer)  I have never met D.P. Gamble but have exchanged a few sporadic correspondences in the 1970s and 80s--- and also purchased a few of his compilations of material on colonial and pre-colonial Gambia. He was undoubtedly one of the best anthropologists to work on the Gambia--- and preserved a vast reservoir of the Gambia's cultural memory in published and unpublished monographs. He was always curious, even when we last communicated, about clarifying...

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...