BATTLE OF SANKANDI: A RIVETING PRODUCTION BY NYANG NJIE!
September 26, 2019
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BATTLE OF SANKANDI 1900!
A Riveting Production by Nyang Njie!
By Ebrima Papa Colley (Gambiano)
He does it with his own finances where the country’s Tourism think-tanks, cormorant of wealth and vainglory remain apathetic. He fathoms it raw, and unabetted, where those with both the cash flow and moral trust inveterately look the other way. And he charts it where Kunta Kinteh’s Gambia stays uncharted despite the advent of today’s media capabilities.
We bring to you a production with a thinker that seeks not the rays of notoriety. The niche his efforts created for themselves, in a volume, transcends an honorable mention this medium may attempt to secure. We feel it’s time for Africans, Gambians in this solemn case, to pipe our own history—to structure our own present with the indisputable of our commemorable past, and the gleanable of our promising tomorrow.
There is a remarkable amalgam of history and pride. But there is a more remarkable incorporation of identity and nationhood Gambia has to tell through sagacious Nyang Njie, a laser-eyed social observer and indigenous pacesetter who tells it with his “Gambia Uncharted.”. From the horse’s mouth, here is his gem of ken: