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Western 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 Africa, she describes the behaviour of the Italian colons towards the people of Somaliland. She evokes in this work the method used by the Italian government, just after the Berlin Conference (1885), to annex this part of Africa. The slavery and the ghastly racist strategies developed by ...

Why 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 Good and Evil Good reigns On years of culture and rupture Blooms her to a smashing rosebud Epoch of joy and youthful age Savouring the juices Full of happiness In pearls of laughter Years mount fast the ladder of age New stage develops Men, both the old and...

The 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 reverie. Brima’s wife, Salimata is very worried. She has been hearing what people have been saying about her husband and it worries her so much. How can some people insinuate that her husband is possessed by witches? Or is he slowly going mad? However much she denies these allegations she still...

UNV 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 development and it benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for volunteerism globally, encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing volunteers. In most cultures volunteerism is...

CONSULTANCY SERVICE TO IMPROVE THE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF THE NATIONAL RECORD SERVICE (NRS)

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 Institutional Capacity Development — PSRICD Project, seeks a suitably qualified company or consultant to undertake a consultancy service for the implementation of a Data Management System of the National Records Service. BACKGROUND The Government of The Gambia has put in place a comprehensive set of...

UNV VOLUNTEER TERMS OF REFERENCE (Administrator, Records Management Information System)

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 development and it benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for volunteerism globally, encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing volunteers. In most cultures volunteerism is...

Children’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 Text Messages to God brings us back to those youthful days and revives our experience of joyful childhood and the old familiar clichés we were so attached to. Six children in The Gambia meet for a “sleep over” at a friend’s house. Their imagination is triggered when the adults in the house...

Dr 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 Mahoney's residence. People from all walks of life arrived there to pay their last homage to a great man. His business partner and close friend, Dr S. J. Palmer, ably coordinated the activities in his honour which consisted of prayers, tributes, poetry reading and songs. It took great mastery of...

A 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 good will live for eternity in the annals of Gambian literary history. The good sown by Dr Lenrie Peters in the fertile soil of the Gambian literary field has grown and germinated well. These are the proud children of Peters and on whom he has bestowed a worthy inheritance. ...

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 W.B. Yeats, “Earth has received an honored guest,” and the Gambia has lost a great son.   According to news reports, Lenrie departed from us on May 27, 2009 at Hôpital Dantec in Dakar, Senegal, after health struggles which resulted in his initial admission at the Kanifing-based Westfield Clinic,...