Meet me in Kaabu, Guinea Bissau

The Guinea trip is expected to provide a unique platform for an intellectual intercourse

The day has been set already, students reading history at the University of the Gambia are warming up for what is likely to be an adventurous journey to the West African state of Guinea Bissau during the first week of next month.

The initiative was borne out of the lacuna that exist in the study of regional history. It has been observed there exist some challenges as regard the untold history of Africa and the story of the movement of people from one place to the other. In Guinea Bissau for example, the students and their lecturers are expected to gather some oral accounts from the people in Kaabu about the political, social and economic relations that exist years before the colonial conquest.

As a matter of fact, students studying history face series of challenges, not that books are not available but the issue most often than not, relate to the age-old wisdom tha the white man wrote our history. The University's forthcoming trip is being facilitated by a young and promising lecturer Ensa Touray, himself a historian.

Preparations for the trip is in full swing, with students contributions and pledges from some institutions, the trip is undoubtedly going to be expensive. Hopes are high that everything is going to turn out quite well for those warming up for Kaabu and Kansala in Guinea Bissau.


For more information contact: Ensa Touray, tel: 7664805
Buba SM Ceesay, tel 6517397