£16,000 grant to preserve Gambia’s ‘endangered’ history records

Gambia's national Museum (Photo credti: NCAC)

Minister Fatou Mass Jobe (photo: Daily News)

The British Library in London has awarded the Gambian National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC) a grant under its ‘British Library Endangered Archives Programme’ to help digitize the NCAC’s oral history archives of over 5,000 recordings.

“The grant is to help the NCAC obtain the necessary equipment for preservation and provide training in how to digitize these important recordings,” according to the British Embassy in Banjul. 

The recordings were made between 1960s - 1980s and cover topics including the empire of Kaabu (a powerful federated Kingdom that includes present day The Gambia, Casamance and Guinea Bissau from the late 13th to mid 19th centuries) in addition to the relationships between the various ethnic groups dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries.   

DEADLINE EXTENDED: First African Blogger Awards

The deadline has been extended of the continent’s very first awards programme that measures online and social influencers’ reach and influence through data analysis.

Five hours ago, ‏@African_Blogger tweeted: “As a result of high demand, we have extended entries for the African Blogger Awards until the 31^st March 2014.” Entries for the awards were initially due to close on 9 March 2014 at midnight GMT+2.

@mikesharman, co-founder of the African Blogger Awards, added: “Stoked to announce that due to demand (almost 400 entries), deadline for @African_Blogger Awards is now 31/03 http://africanbloggerawards.com.”

A nurse and journalist who was truly fearless in confronting authority in both Church and State

Mrs Bijou Edith Ernestine Bidwell Nee Peters 1927 – 2014

Bijou Peters (Photo credit: Gamcotrap)

Bijou Edith Ernestine Bidwell Nee Peters was the eldest daughter of the late Mr Lenrie Peters and Mrs Kezia (Broderick) Peters of Bathurst (now Banjul), The Gambia. 

She was born on the 29^th of March 1927 in Freetown, Sierra Leone and educated in her school days at St. Mary’s Anglican Primary School and Methodist Girls High School, under the educationist Mrs Norah Senior, MBE and missionary from Somerset, UK. She was Head Girl and passed the senior Cambridge School Certificate Exam.

She died on February 12, 2014 at 86 years of age. Prayers where held at St. Paul’s Parish Church, Fajara and buried at the Banjul Cemetery on Monday, March 3, 2014.

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Catholic Church 'Prevents Opening' of Clitoral Repair Hospital

“The goal is to help as many victims as possible have this surgery, which will also help discourage the barbaric practice of FGM,” Nadine Gary said.  “When its effects can be surgically reversed for free, what would be the point?” - Photo Credit: Clitoraid