TO MY LATE FRIEND DR. LENRIE PETERS: The Gambian Vessel Emptied of its Poetry
In Appreciation, By Dr. Tijan M. Sallah[i] Dr. Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters, the Gambia’s renowned surgeon, poet and novelist, has left us for eternity. I will borrow from what W.H. Auden said of...
View ArticleA LITERARY GIANT HAS FALLEN
By Cherno Omar Barry, Lecturer, University of The Gambia Mark Anthony said, in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, that the good is oft interred with the bones of good men but in Dr Lenrie Peters’ case, the...
View ArticleDr Peters Laid to Rest
Dr Lenrie Peters has finally been laid to rest at the Banjul Cemetery, on Wednesday 3rd June 2009 at around 18h30 GMT. Between 15h45 and 18h00, his life and works were celebrated at Dr Florence...
View ArticleChildren’s Text Messages to God: A musical in two acts
How many of us can remember our childhood days and the nostalgic feelings of innocence, of false judgement and particularly of joy and sorrow in a simple world made complicated by adults. Children’s...
View ArticleUNV VOLUNTEER TERMS OF REFERENCE (Administrator, Records Management...
Preamble: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. Volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of...
View ArticleCONSULTANCY SERVICE TO IMPROVE THE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF THE NATIONAL...
The Personnel Management Office-(PMO), Office of the President in Banjul, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Project-UNDP in the framework of the Public Service Reform and...
View ArticleUNV VOLUNTEER TERMS OF REFERENCE (Senior ICT Officer)
Preamble: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. Volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of...
View ArticleThe Lady of the River 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 order and when they attract his attention, he seems to awaken from a...
View ArticleWhy not Black? - a poem by Cherno Omar Barry
Why not Black? By Cherno Omar Barry Slippery eel joins the world it’s like Youth emerging smiling Crying for the pleasurable pains of the earth An argument she has just begun That which is between...
View ArticleWestern Domination, Imperialism and Exploitation
Dr Pierre Gomez In its 19 November 1951 edition, The Gambia Echo made a survey of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst’s book entitled A Forgotten Country where, making reference to her knowledge of the horn of...
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