#National News

Gambian author to launch debut book in March

Jan 17, 2023, 12:53 PM | Article By: Njie Baldeh

 A Gambian award-winning author, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe, is set to launch his debut book on March, 2023.

The book titled ‘The Throne of The Ghost (a play)’ was published in the USA in 2016 by African Books Collective (ABC) and Malthouse Press Limited, Lagos, Nigeria. 

Sowe, who started his writing career in 2014, in the recent past continues to make considerable gains in his literary pursuit and is increasingly becoming popular across the globe; listed by the Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) as the book of the month in May 2022.

He was awarded the Subscribers Wergle Fomp Humor Poetry Contest 2021 by the Winning Writers in the USA and the African Literature Award 2021 by the International Association of African Authors and Scholars (IAAAS), based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

“In four hundred and eighty months ago or thereabout, when Africa was a huge farmland, there lived a king in a place known today as Niamina Dankunku, who was endowed with dignity as a result of his wisdom and unquestionable character and well known within the Senegambia, Guinea and Mali regions.” he previewed.

Sowe also played a major role in the rise of aspiring young publications, and has other works in prose, drama and poetry.