Ebou Dibba

Ebou Dibba, MBE (10 August 1943 – 29 December 2000), was a Gambian novelist and a teacher. He was born in Bathurst (now Banjul), capital of the Gambia, where he was raised in the prevalent Wolof culture to which his mother belonged, although his father's family was from Baddibu, a Mandinka area up-river. Dibba attended the Gambian Methodist high school and was an exceptionally bright student — the first Gambian to earn three A-levels. Quotes “Life, however, has a way of presenting us with hurdles which we have to get over even if we don’t feel like jumping“ Ebou Dibba, Chaff on the Wind (1986). “The last time they had all gathered together like this was to see his favorite sister off to marry a man she did not know.” Ebou Dibba, Chaff on the Wind, p. 16. Quotes about Ebou Dibba "At the centre, he created a realm the like of which neither Bletchingley or Surrey adult education had seen the like before; he saw his role as that of a missionary for African culture and values in the darkest of home counties." "Ebou Dibba was an important Gambian novelist, who, earlier, as director of the adult education centre at Bletchingley, Surrey, left an indelible mark on a typical home counties community." External links Category:Academics Category:Novelists Category:Writers Category:Literary critics Category:People from the Gambia Category:1943 births Category:2000 deaths