Gambia: Gambian Editor and Journalist –

By: Hassoum Ceesay

N. Thomas, as he liked to sign off his editorials and articles, who died Saturday, 19th Instant, aged 82, was the last of the Titans whom we can fairly call newspapermen: editors, writers, reporters, layout, distributors, advertisers all rolled into one.

He was in the same generation of accomplished Gambian newspapermen like Pierre Sock (1940-1989); Jongkunda Daffeh(disappeared 2021); Sanna Tix Manneh(1943-2009) who combined good writing with perceptive…