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Tribute to Gambian Historian Dawda Faal
Monday, 18 April 2011 16:43
Editor,May I take this opportunity to pay tribute to a gentle, quiet, dignified Gambian, Muslim High School’s History teacher Dawda Faal who recently passed away.
I came across his textbook, A History of The Gambia, at Timbooktoo Bookshop opposite the Point Newspaper offices in 2007. Being a trained history teacher myself I was impressed and got my staff at
the Daily Observer to contact him and invite him to my office for a meeting. The result was that for the next six months or so the Daily Observer serialised the whole textbook chapter by chapter each week and put it on the internet for Diaspora Gambians to enjoy.I understand from those whom Dawda Faal taught that he was a dedicated and fondly remembered teacher. I certainly have cherished memories of the half-dozen or so meetings we had at the Daily Observer when he came to discuss editorial points of his book’s weekly serialisation.
He was a good modest Gambian and I wish his family well in their time of sorrow. The comfort is that he is the kind of man who would get an express ticket to God’s heavenly palace. May his sould rest in perfect peace.
Dida Jallow-Halake,
London, UK.
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