Baboucarr Gaye (journalist)

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Baboucarr Gaye (* 1951 in Kau-ur ; † October 30, 2007 in Bakau- Fajara) was a Gambian journalist and radio presenter. He was co-founder and editor of the Gambian daily newspapers The Point , New Citizen and the radio station Citizen FM .

Life

Baboucarr Gaye, son of an alkalo , grew up in Kau-ur ( Central River Region ). For further education he went to Bathurst (the former name of the capital Banjul ) to the Methodist Boys High School (later Gambia High School). In Nigeria he studied mass communication at the University of Lagos and completed an internship with the BBC African Service . Gaye worked for a long time at Radio Gambia from the early 1970s and made his career there. During this time he also worked for the BBC .

In 1983 Gaye started his own business and together with Deyda Hydara and Pap Saine published the weekly newspaper The Senegambia Sun , which was promoted by the Senegalese daily newspaper Le Soleil . After Le Soleil's financial problems , the work was stopped in 1985.

At the end of 1991 Gaye founded The Point newspaper with Saine ; Hydara joined them again later. Gaye left the editorial team in April 1992 and started the monthly Newsmonth . He then founded his own newspaper, New Citizen , in 1995 and the radio station Citizen FM in 1996 , which he made one of the most popular stations in the country. He ran the newspaper and the station until 1997 when the authorities closed both of them. An appeal to the higher court was delayed until October 2000. Then both were able to resume operations until they were closed again in 2001.

Baboucarr Gaye died at the age of 56 after a heart attack in the Medical Research Council , the Gambian research clinic of the British institute MRC .

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SURNAME Gaye, Baboucarr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaye, Boubacar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kau-ur
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2007
Place of death Bakau -Fajara