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20,000 books for Gambia University Professor Nyang pledges
by Lamin Jatta Head, Education desk
Dr Sulayman Nyang, a Gambian professor at the Howard University in the US has
pledged to donate 20,000 books from his personal library to the University of
The Gambia (UTG). Prof Nyang, who is the head of African Studies at the
Howard University made this pledge last Thursday at a reception organised in
his honour by the vice chancellor of the University of The Gambia. Speaking
at the reception Prof Nyang said, "I think the University of The Gambia has a
humble beginning but like a mustard seed that is planted and cultivated
properly, it could very well develop into a massive hope tree and there will
be many birds building their nests on this tree.
Those of you who are actively involved in helping plant, water and cultivate
this seed of potential academic development in this country will be
remembered by future generations of Gambians, Africans and human beings from
the other parts of the world." Prof Nyang said the missing link in the
Gambian education structure had always been the university and this had
created the condition for Gambians to go abroad to acquire higher education.
"This institution can help Gambians process data connecting with their past;
the society at the moment is very oral and because of that much of its
history is going through the historical shift and unless the oral history is
transcribed and processed at a higher and more sophisticated level like the
university, Gambians will not be enriched by serious social science analysis
of the historical experience," Prof Nyang warned.
Speaking earlier, the vice chancellor of the University of The Gambia, Prof
Donald Ekong said one of the assignment of his administration was to look for
Gambian academics abroad and to solicit advice and assistance from them as
well as "try to interest them on what is happening at home and if possible
bring them back home." Both Dr Tejan Sallah of the World Bank and Momodou
Darboe of Shepherd University currently on a sabbatical leave with the UTG
expressed happiness at the establishment of the Gambia University. Prof Nyang
is the head of a team of American teachers who visited The Gambia last week.
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