Banjul, Gambia

It seems to me lunacy that we should expect (or believe in their pledges) that the United States, Britain, France or the U.S.S.R. should genuinely...

Dr Peters published his first novel, The Second Round, in 1965. It became the first novel published by a Gambia. Below is a synopsis: From...

Katchikali What magic spells held the first men, wandering in darkness heads bowed, to draw breath, refuge from toil and say This is...

by Cherno Omar Barry For several weeks now, Brima Touray has been acting very strangely. He is often absent-minded when his clients come to make an...

by Hassoum Ceesay Introduction This is one of the most high profile plays ever written by any Gambian playwright. Set in Armitage High School,...

by Cherno Omar Barry From a paper presented on the occasion of the World Book Day, 30 April 2008 Introduction In the last two and a half decades,...

By Dr Pierre Gomez In The Gambia, like in other countries, the press has permitted Gambian literature to take its first steps by giving the...

Ndaanan, I am told, is the Wollof word for “an accomplished griot” and as the griot is in a sense a total artist embracing music and dancing, poetry...

Dear Reader, Another year has passed and Convocation is here again. As is our tradition at this time, we bring you literary material written by...

Jerreh Barrow is a geophysicist who loves writing poems. Cherno Omar Barry is a lecturer in French at the University of The Gambia. He is currently...