Saiks Samateh wrote:

DEAR G-LERS

 When the Europeans and the Arabs came to Africa we did not only lose much of
 our traditional religions,they made us to believe that ours is a pagan
 religion,they enslave us and polluted our minds with Christianity and
 Islam,our own names are almost  dying out,Momodou,Fatou,John,Mary are more
 common names,this is wrong and something must be done.I am interested in
 collecting typical Gambian names from any tribe in the Gambia and I am
 appealing to you for help.Please send me the ones you know and please let me
 know from which of the tribes and I will do the rest of the research.I have
 also been very interested in Gambian songs and story telling,I still do some
 collections,if you have any and want to share it with me it ,that will be
 great.

 For Freedom

 Saiks
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Saiks,

How about the following

FEMALE NAMES:

Jabou ( This name is found in Fula, Jola, Mandinka  and Zulu (l have a Zulu
friend  of many years named Jabou, the Zulu also  say Jabulani, and  it means
happiness or love? in  Zulu)

Penda ( Wollof, maybe others)

Jahu (wollof)

Huri (wollof)

Ancha (wollof)

Raabbi (wollof)

Horeja (wollof)

Tanor  (wollof, my fanafana  ancestors) l think this one can be either male
or female

Fama (wollof, Fula)

Jainaba (wollof, fula)

Jangkeh (wollof)

Naaboh  (wollof)

MALE:

Saiarr (wollof)

Balla  (wollof)

Sengan ( Sererr)

Samory ( Fula?)

Wandifeng (Jola?)

Karamo  (Mandinka)

Abba    (Mandinka)

Bakary ( Mandinka, Wollof)

Too sleepy to think of anymore right now.
The ones that l have referred to  as being wollof names can be names used by
other  groups too,  since l am no expert in this.

Regards,
Jabou

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