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InFOCUS - Bakau Town

Millions of people have been irresistibly attracted to the wonders of the magical world of Harry Potter books, owing to the fantasies and the mental picture the books imprint in the minds of readers. For obvious reasons, and perhaps better known to some people, Bakau town erupted out of Kombo as a coastal town, offering an intimate, friendly home-away-from-home atmosphere, with distinctive glamour (and unique smell of fish!). The Gambia’s area was said to be once the nucleus of a viable...

Cheikh Anta Diop and the new light on African History

Cheikh Anta Diop was born in Diourbel, Senegal. His early education was in a traditional Islamic School. At the age of 23, he went to Paris in 1946 to become a physicist. He remained there for 15 years, studying physics under FrÈdÈric Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie’s son-in-law, and ultimately translating parts of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity into his native Wolof.Diop's education included African history, Egyptology, linguistics, anthropology, economics, and sociology. In 1951, Diop submitted...

History Corner - Peoples of The Gambia: The Fula

Various versions have been given by historians about the origins of the Fula. One version is that they were originally a Berber speaking people who crossed the Senegal to pasture their cattle on the Ferlo Plateau Finding themselves cut off from their kinsmen by the Negroid communities occupying the fertile Senegal valley they gradually adopted the language of their new neighbours. As their herds increased, small groups found themselves forced to move eastward and so initiated a series of...

The Stone Circles of The Gambia

Because neither Islam nor Christinity had been introduced to our earliest ancestors, they held firmly to traditional African beliefs and customs. They were influenced by secret societies and initiation rites of different kinds. For example, they regarded the Earth as sacred, because she provided them with food, and received the dead into her bowels, so wrote a leading Gambian historian in the work ‘Stories of The Senegambia. The Stone circles are indeed the leading archaeological relics of our...