From: Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: GAMBIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
To: "Gambia-L List" <[log in to unmask]>, "Gambia Post latest 2011" <[log in to unmask]>, "Gambia Writers Association" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 5:05 PM
I have received several emails in private, from people who wanted to know how to lay hands on items in Professor David Gamble’s Gambia Studies Series. Emeritus Professor David Gamble, formerly of California State University, San Francisco, is the doyen of Gambian Studies. An anthropologist by training, it is not an exaggeration to say that he has dedicated his entire life to Gambian Bibliography. His seven major volumes of Gambian bibliography, covering every aspect of Gambian state and society, including local languages, will have to be consulted by anyone wishing to conduct any serious research on the Gambia. These important volumes are published in David Gamble’s Gambian Studies Series. There are 52 items in the Gambia Studies series and they have covered a wide range of subjects. For those of you, who wanted to know how to get hold of these useful
volumes, be informed that electronic copies of Professor Gamble’s Gambian Studies Series are deposited with St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA. The 52 items in the Gambia Studies series are available online in PDF formats. St. Mary’s College of Maryland retains all rights to these Gambia related materials. Commercial use is prohibited, but they may be used freely for teaching and academic research.
To access them, click this link: http://www.smcm.edu/gambia/david_gamble.html
Hard copies of the items in the Gambia Studies series are also available for purchase directly from the author, who can be contacted at this address:
David P. Gamble
268 Klamath Street
Brisbane, CA 94005
USA
Professor Gamble did confirm to me that these items can indeed be purchased directly from him.
If you live in the UK, the two primary repositories of Gambian documents are the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and the National Archives of the UK in Kew, London. Both are holding many published and unpublished documents on Gambia.
I hope this information helps.
Regards,
Ebrima
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The Gambia Studies by David Gamble
Gambian Studies No. 1: A Conversation with Kaba So, an Elder of the Roroobe, From Jalakoto, Niani District, The Gambia
Gambian Studies No. 2: Mandinka Narratives from Kibaro – with a literal translation
Gambian Studies No. 3: Mandinka Dilemma Stories, Puzzles, Riddles &
Proverbs
Gambian Studies No. 4: Accounts of Supernatural Beings, Spirits, Witches, Werewolves, Ninkinanko, etc., from the Mandinka Newspaper, Kibaro
Gambian Studies No. 5: Medical Mandinka (Useful phrases and vocabulary)
Gambian Studies No. 6: Mandinka Stories from Books Published Prior to 1960
Gambian Studies No. 7: Mandinka Tales from the Newspaper ‘Kobaro’: 1951-1955
Gambian Studies No. 8: Mandinka Stories – Dictated, Written or Recorded
Gambian Studies No. 9: A Mandinka Narrative – “Manding Kuno” by A.K. Rahman
Gambian Studies No. 10A: Wolof Stories from Senegambia Mainly from Old Published Sources
Gambian Studies No. 10B: Wolof Legends from Published Sources
Gambian Studies No. 12: Gambian Fula – English Dictionary (Firdu Dialect)
Gambian Studies No. 13: Gambian Fula Stories Told by Mary Umah Baldeh
Gambian Studies No. 14: Firdu-Fula Grammar (Gambia Dialect)
Gambian Studies No. 15: Gambia Government Serial Publications of the Colonial Period: A Provisional List
Gambian Studies No. 17: Peoples of the Gambia – The Wolof Gambian Studies No. 18 A General Bibliography of The Gambia up to 31st December 1977 Supplement 1
Gambian Studies No. 19: A General Bibliography of the Gambia Supplement II 1978-1982
Gambian Studies No. 20: Elementary Mandinka
Gambian Studies No. 21: Intermediate Gambian Mandinka-English Dictionary
Gambian Studies No. 22:
Verbal and Visual Expressions of Wolof Culture
Gambian Studies No. 24: A General Bibliography of the Gambia, Supplement III 1983-1987
Gambian Studies No. 25: Elementary Gambian Wolof Grammar
Gambian Studies No. 26: Early Published Vocabularies of the Wolof Language
Gambian Studies No. 27: John Hill’s Vocabularies of Wolof, Compiled in 1808 on the Island of Goree (Senegal)
Gambian Studies No. 28: Terms Found in Old Writings About Senegambia
Gambian Studies No. 29: A General Bibliography of the Gambia Supplement IV 1988-1992
Gambian Studies No. 30: The South Bank of the Gambia: Places, People, and Population (A) Kantora and Fuladuu
Gambian Studies No. 31: The South Bank of the Gambia: Places, People and Population Nyaamina, Jaara, and Kiyang Districts
Gambian Studies No. 32: The South Bank of the Gambia: Places, People and Population The Fonyui Districts
Gambian Studies No. 33 A: General Bibliography of the Gambia Supplement V: 1993-1995
Gambian Studies No. 34: Mandinka Ceremonies
Gambian Studies No. 35A: The Gambia: Place Names on Maps and in Travellers’ Accounts up to 1825 (A) Descriptive Text
Gambian Studies No. 35B: The Gambia: Place Names on Maps and in Travellers’ Accounts (B) A selection
of maps
Gambian Studies No. 35C: The Gambia: Place Names Given by Travellers & Residents in the 19th and 20th centuries
Gambian Studies No. 36: The North Bank of the Gambia: Places, People and Population (A) Nianija, Niani, Sami, Sandu, & Wuli Districts
Gambian Studies No. 37: The North Bank of the Gambia: Places, People, and Population (B) The Wolof Area: Sabah
& Sanjal, Lower Saalum, Upper Saalum
Gambian Studies No. 38: The North Bank of the Gambia: Places, People, and Population: (C) The Nyoomi, Jookadu, and Badibu Districts
Gambian Studies No. 39: Postmortem: A Study of the Gambian Section of Alex Haley’s ‘Roots’
Gambian Studies No. 40: Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Gambia: (Past and
Present)
Gambian Studies No. 41: Maps of the Gambia in the Map Collection and Senegambian Book Collection of David P. Gamble
Gambian Studies No. 43 A: General Bibliography of the Gambia, Supplement VI 1996-1999
Gambian Studies No. 44 A: General Bibliography of the Gambia, Supplement VII 2000-2002 (with some earlier items)
Gambian Studies No. 45: Errors, Confusions, and Misinterpretations in Writings about the Gambia
Gambian Studies No. 48: Thoughts on Gambian Folktales
Gambian Studies No. 49: Traditional Mandinka Agriculture
Gambian Studies
No. 50: John Hill’s Account of Life on Goree Island 1807-1808
Gambian Studies No. 51: The South Bank of The Gambia: People, Places and Population (D) The Kombo Districts
Gambian Studies No. 52: Gambian Linguistic Material in the David P. Gamble Collection