Ebrima,
it´s a fine idea.
The more I come to learn about The Gambia and gambians, the more I find
it´s fantastic how many gambians make a living outside The Gambia, and not
only in western countries, but all over.
Often have I told my gambian friends that there is a fantastic potential,
knowledge, contact-network, which The Gambia could profit from. You have so
many people who can speak many different languages, have international
contacts to universities, institutions, authorities, press and NGO´s, and
put together it become a fantastic ressource-bank.
One of the aims in GESO is to make such a data-bank of gambians, which can
be usefull for not only gambians, but for states, institutes, organisations
all over, who seek information on The Gambia.
So even you can discuss, who should be in such a data-bank I think you
should start. Things take time, and the sooner the better. Then discuss
details later.
I will suggest that also artists should be in the "bank".
Asbjørn Nordam
>Gambia L,
>
>The purpose of this write up is essentially two-fold:
>
>Firstly, to inform you about my plans to produce/edit a directory containing
>the names, contact addresses, occupations, publications, of as many
>progressive Gambian scholars/intellectuals as possible.
>
>The aim is for the directory to serve as a reference book, where students,
>researchers, among others, can find the names and contact addresses of
>active Gambian scholars/intellectuals - their different expertise and
>research interests.
>
>Secondly, I would be most grateful, if some of you could send me names and
>contact addresses of progressive Gambian
>scholars/intellectuals/international civil servants you may know, anywhere
>in the world, at home and abroad.
>
>However, before expounding on the idea, let me give you a backgrounder, so
>that you can have a sense of what has given rise to the idea of publishing
>such a directory.
>
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