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Introduction The Education Sector Strategic Plan (2006-2015) has been a significant guiding document for the provision and management of education in The Gambia.
Jul 21, 2023
A fascinating history, with a memorable cast of characters, of Africans who had a vital presence in European life.
Jul 7, 2023 • Olivette Otele
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.
Jun 23, 2023
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.
Jun 2, 2023 • Ruth Latta
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).
May 26, 2023 • Angela Duckworth.
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).
May 19, 2023 • Angela Duckworth.
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Mar 31, 2023 • Ashlee Vance
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.
Mar 24, 2023 • Ernest Becker
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.
Mar 17, 2023
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.
Mar 17, 2023 • John Self
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.
Mar 10, 2023 • Seamus Martin
There are some books you don’t feel qualified to review.
Feb 10, 2023
Jan 27, 2023
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.
Jan 20, 2023 • – Dr Cherno Omar Barry
Sulayman M. Trawally, a former Permanent Secretary is set to launch his book titled: “Moral Reflections and Thoughts.
Jan 20, 2023
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.
Jan 13, 2023 • Timbooktoo Book Review
November 1969 Excerpt Historical Background The first schools in The Gambia were opened by Christian Missions shortly after the founding of Bathurst in 1816.
Jan 6, 2023 • S. M. H. Jones
