The biography of Deyda Hydara, the slain publisher of The Point newspaper, will soon be released to the public.
It is titled A Living Mirror: The Life Of Deyda Hydara, and is written by Aloa Ahmed Alota and Demba Ali Jawo.

Speaking to journalists yesterday at The Point offices, Aloa Ahmed Alota said, “The media fraternity in the Gambia owes it to Deyda Hydara to forever keep his memory alive.”
He added: “A Living Mirror: The Life Of Deyda Hydara is neither an inquiry into Deyda Hydara’s murder nor an indictment of anybody for his murder. It is a portrait of Deyda Hydara as a man, a husband, a father, a journalist and a social commentator, as we knew him. But if anyone feels uneasy about the drama shown in this book, they have only their own consciences to wrestle with.”
According to him, writing the biography of the late Deyda Hydara is “a labour of love”.

He disclosed that both the research and the writing took him two years to complete. “It has been a long haul,“ he said. “I had to quit my job to enable me to carry on with the work. I relied on the generosity of friends and sympathisers to get the work done and over with. But now that a university in North America has approved the biography as a set text for its sophomore students, I feel fulfilled. Deyda Hydara will now be taught and studied at the university level. It means that many more books will be written on him in due course.
In this sense, his killer or killers have been defeated. They will have to realise to their eternal agony that even when journalists and writers get killed, they keep on living,” he added. “Besides,” he said, “many schools of journalism in Europe, America and South Africa have shown a huge interest in the book. And there are plans to translate it into Dutch, Swedish and French."