Multiple
award-winning Gambian journalist Sulayman Bah was this week ranked as Africa’s
second finest colour piece writer.
The
ranking is done by the AIPS, the world sports journalists body at its recent
awards this month.
Journalists
across all continents submitted pieces which were categorised into audio, sport
column, video, sport pieces and young reporters’ prize.
Gambia
had an alarming number of applicants competing in various categories namely
sports writing pieces, audio, broadcasting and video.
Bah,
who became the first Gambian journalist to achieve the AIPS top-10 rank last
year, this year finished second best in the sport writing category in Africa
behind only Nigeria’s Tolu Olasoji.
In
the same writing category, another Gambian Omar Jarju came fourth while Alieu
Ceesay and Baboucar Sey from the QTV finished 8th and 9th respectively in the
video athlete profile category.
In
the Audio category in Africa there was only one Gambian journalist in John
Mendy who came third.
Sey
and Mendy were also ranked 8th and 10th respectively in the young reporter
broadcasting category.
