Wikipedia says Gambia’s Gina Mariam Bass-Bittaye was born in “Toubakouta”, Senegal. In the same write-up, the world popular bio-search site states Mrs. Bass-Bittaye moved to The Gambia when she was little. 

The site mis-spelled “Tubakuta in The Gambia and came up with a Senegalese rendering and later confusingly states Tubakuta is in The Gambia. Please, can those Gambians close to Mrs. Bass-Bittaye’s family inform them of this blunder?

Whenever a Gambian is popular, he/she belongs somewhere else? They said the same of Lalo Kebba Drammeh. They said the same of Kanilai being in Casamance. Remember the Chelsea striker Nicholas Jackson? And Lamin Camara? Many Gambians believe all these are Gambian! We don’t know the families of these world-wide celebrities, but we can tell wikipedia that Tubakuta isn’t in Senegal.

This editor is from Brikama not too far from Tubakuta and has relatives and farm lands around the village. We Gambians are very poor at keeping records or rectifying them. This editor also had a farm near a Bass Kunda in Brikama Kabafita/Daru Khairu area where he used to fetch water from. The Bass family helped us a great deal!

That same family had a boy this editor went to school with and his name was Pa Bass. Pa and his sister’s face look just like Gina Bass’ and efforts to reach out to our friends potentially related and from the same area all the way to Farato are still yet to bear fruits. We don’t have time to run this paper. But please, can some sane Gambian media house do a profile on Gina Bass-Bittaye please so that Wikipedia won’t argue that she is Senegalese?

They already took away Jackson of Chelsea, Lamin Camara, Lalo Kebba Drammeh, and Adama Barrow! But please, leave us with our one and only Gina Mariam Bass-Bittaye!

For God’s sake, look at what they wrote: “Gina Bass was born in May 1995 in Toubacouta, Senegal, she moved to the Gambia at a very young age.”