By Tijan Nimaga, New York

Watching from my vantage point at the New York City Ports Authority a familiar noise drew my attention. This was no ordinary noise; it was noise from a cargo ship leaving New York for an unknown destination. It quickly reminded me of The Gambia Ports Authority (GPA). The cargo ship attracted me further as it gently moved towards the horizon, leaving a score of joyous merchants in possession of goods on the cargo ship. The cargo ship it self and the numerous others at the New York Port are almost identical to those I saw back in The Gambia at the GPA Harbour on Wellington Street Banjul.

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Professor Abdoulaye Saine of the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio has been reading THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE GAMBIA by two eminent British scholars; Professor Arnold Hughes and David Perfet, and writes this arresting, crisp and precise review for our Echo readers...

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