Book Review

Excerpt from the Education Sector Medium Term Plan  2008-2011– lessons to learn
Jul 21, 2023, 12:08 PM

Introduction
The Education Sector Strategic Plan (2006-2015) has been a significant guiding document for the provision and management of education in The Gambia.

African Europeans
African Europeans  when race mattered less
Jul 7, 2023, 1:01 PM

A fascinating history, with a memorable cast of characters, of Africans who had a vital presence in European life.

Mocking Bird
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Jun 23, 2023, 12:16 PM

I usually prefer to enjoy my reading material rather than having to parse it's deeper meaning, so I can sometimes be rather reluctant to read books that are critically acclaimed and/or considered classics, since they are often difficult to understand.

Girls
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
Jun 2, 2023, 12:44 PM

Lois Frankel, a specialist in the field of leadership development for women, has revised and republished Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, because of a clear need.

Grit v3
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
May 26, 2023, 12:32 PM

The genre of personal success literature has grown crowded and fiercely competitive in the three decades since Steven Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).

Grit v2
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
May 19, 2023, 12:18 PM

The genre of personal success literature has grown crowded and fiercely competitive in the three decades since Steven Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).

Outliers
Outliers
Apr 14, 2023, 12:13 PM

Elon Musk
ELON MUSK
Mar 31, 2023, 11:51 AM

The Danial of Death
 “The Denial of Death,”
Mar 24, 2023, 12:14 PM

How the fact of death powers the human drive to life
During our childhood, gradually through observation then perhaps all at once through our parents’ telling, we all come to learn that our life will not last forever. We become aware of death.

Curriculum Thesis - Except
Mar 17, 2023, 1:17 PM

CHAPTER 2: CONTEXT
Introduction
A critical understanding of CP making in one nation requires an appreciation of the context  within which the study is conducted.

Tete
Michel the Giant by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
Mar 17, 2023, 1:12 PM

I had started on a voyage of discovery, only to find that it was I who was being discovered,” writes Tété-Michel Kpomassie in this memoir of his time as “an African in Greenland”, first published in 1981 and now reissued by Penguin Modern Classics in a translation by James Kirkup.

Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney
Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney
Mar 10, 2023, 1:39 PM

John Sweeney’s book is not a disinterested biography of Vladimir Putin, the eponymous “Killer in the Kremlin”. It is, instead, a polemic relating not only to Russia’s president but to many other aspects of the politics of Russia and Ukraine. At its best it points to some of Putin’s most execrable traits and at its worst elevates the author to the position of the book’s leading character.

Book
The Book of Negroes 
Feb 10, 2023, 2:35 PM

There are some books you don’t feel qualified to review.

Education report
A Brief History of Education in The Gambia
Jan 20, 2023, 1:34 PM

Education Reports

From the 1930s onwards, education specialists were invited to review the education system and submit reports, with recommendations, on the state of education in The Gambia.

Sulayman M Trawally
Moral Reflection and Thoughts book to be launched on Feb. 11
Jan 20, 2023, 1:11 PM

Sulayman M. Trawally, a former Permanent Secretary is set to launch his book titled: “Moral Reflections and Thoughts.

civil wars v2
How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
Jan 13, 2023, 1:52 PM

Barbara Walter does not expect to see a civil war in the US of the order of the conflict that tore the nation apart in the 1860s, but that’s chiefly because civil wars are fought differently these days. And it’s about the only comfort a concerned reader can take from this sobering account of how civil wars start and are conducted in our time.

EDUCATIONAL POLICY, LEGISLATION & ADMINISTRATION
Jan 6, 2023, 1:22 PM

November 1969
Excerpt
Historical Background
The first schools in The Gambia were opened by Christian Missions shortly after the founding of Bathurst in 1816.

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