The launch chaired by Aziz Willan, Gambia’s best event moderator was held at NaNA conference hall in Kanifing. It was well attended by educationists, family members, friends and well-wishers.
Dr Cherno Omar Barry, President of The Gambia Writers Associationurged Gambians to take up the responsibility to write the country’s moral and cultural values as well as issues affecting people in a bid for better understanding and solution finding to them.
“We need to write all these things so that people will understand the context. From there now, we will know how to form the policies, know where we have our challenges and how we can build on where we have our strengths and find solutions to our problems,” he added.
During the presentation, Mr. Trawally who now manages his own consulting firm said the book is meant to create awareness among readers regarding some of the values lost over time especially among the younger generation who are now preoccupied with other engagements forgetting about important values necessary to mould them to become responsible citizens who contribute meaningfully to socio economic development of the country.
“The latter has created a lot of upheavals and problems in society bothering on indiscipline, empathy, morality, co-existence, ancestral values among others which must be addressed to bring back sanity in society for all to live and enjoy as wishes by Mother Nature,” he stated. “This is what the book tries to achieve among readers,” he further said.
“The book also provides guidance to young people regarding hopes and uncertainties of adolescence not to misconstrue parental advice and guidance as burden, rather a moral lesson to follow to be safeguarded against the pitfalls and distractions of life to become successful in adulthood as wished by parents,” the author added.
He thanked his wife, family, friends and all those who contributed to the successful launch of his maiden book.
Madam Juka Jabang, an Educationist and Director General of West Africa International School (WAIS) who launched the book expressed gratitude and thanks to Mr Trawally for authoring such an important book. She urged others to emulate Mr Trawally in writing books about the lost good morals and values ever known in the country.
“It is important to remind the younger generation the good moral values and culture that ever existed since our ancestral days,” Madam Jabang said.
She encouraged parents, schools and libraries tobuy copies for their children and students noting that the book will help to inculcate good sense of responsibility and respect in them.
The book is available at Timbuktoo Bookshop in Bakau.
