By Dr Ebrima Ceesay, UK In the early nineties, while I was a reporter at the Daily Observer newspaper in the Gambia, I wrote a profile article, published in its 1 October 1993 issue titled, “The Poetic Dreams of Tijan M. Sallah” — on one of the Gambia’s most internationally famous and consequential writers since Dr. Lenrie[Read More…]
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