Mr
M. I. Sambou-Gassama, a Gambian diplomat at the African Union HQ in Addis Ababa,
will launch his publications on Saturday 18 March 2017 at the UTG Law Faculty,
MDI Road at 4 pm. The titles to be launched are:
• Fragments of My Recollection (Fulladu
Publishers, 2014), a collection of my articles published variously since 1980;
• From OAU to AU: a history of a
Continental Body (Harmattan, 2014);
• In Search of Knowledge and Self
Development (Fulladu, 2015) an autobiography;
• Poems in Arabic
All
these books will be reviewed by scholars at the launch.
Mr
Gassama was born in 1947 and worked as a young diplomat at the Gambian embassy
in Libya in 1976, the Gambia High Commission in London, UK, in 1979 to 1981
when he joined the then OAU as translator. He has worked at the African
continental body for 37 years. He is also a noted columnist and social
commentator whose writings have appeared in various magazines and newspapers.
He
invites the general public, friends and well-wishers to the programme.
