Ramatoulie Othman

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Ramatoulie Onikepo Othman (born in Bathurst, now Banjul ) is a Gambian writer.

Life

Othman belongs to the Aku (or Oku) Marabout ethnic group .

She attended elementary and secondary school in Freetown (Sierra Leone). She then trained in administration ( Secretarial Studies ) at the Presentation Girls Vocational School in Banjul .

In the early 1980s she worked as a social worker at the Department of Social Welfare in Banjul and also worked as a reporter. Between 1983 and 1994 she was a freelance journalist for the Nigerian newspapers Daily Times and National Concord . In 1993 she was an actress at the TeleTest film festival of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). Around 1996 she wrote for the Gambian Daily Observer .

In 1999, after urging her environment, she published the book A Cherished Heritage, a scientific study of the history of the Muslim Aku , whose roots she sees in freed slaves and settlers from Freetown (Sierra Leone) and the West Indies . The novel Costly Prices from 2005 deals with the topics of tourism in Gambia and Gambian bumsters .

From 2010 to 2018 she was treasurer of the Writers' Association of The Gambia (WAG).

Works

  • The Views of an Onlooker , 1991 (compilation of their news articles, published in Nigeria).
  • A Cherished Heritage: Tracing the Roots of the Oku Marabout , Serekunda (Gambia), Edward Francis Small Printing Press, 1999.
  • Costly Prices , Ahmadiyya Muslim Centenary Press, 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g A Cherished Heritage. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Gambian Women and Their Struggle for Voice. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b GAMBIA. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Othman, Ramatoulie. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ Gambia: Writers' Association Elects New Executive. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Tribute: Atukwei Okai. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Othman, Ramatoulie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Othman, Ramatoulie Onikepo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst, now Banjul