Ramatoulie Othman
Ramatoulie Onikepo Othman belongs to the Oku Marabout ethnic group.
Early life
She attended elementary and secondary school in Freetown (Sierra Leone). She then continued her education in administration ( Secretarial Studies ) at the Presentation Girls Vocational School in Banjul.
Career
In the early 1980s she worked as a social worker at the Department of Social Welfare in Banjul and also worked as a reporter. Between 1983 and 1994 she was a freelance journalist for the Nigerian newspapers Daily Times and National Concord . In 1993 she was an actress at the film festival TeleTest of the Nigerian television station Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). Around 1996 she wrote for the Gambian Daily Observer.
In 1999, after urging her environment, she published the book A Cherished Heritage, a scientific study of the history of the Muslim Aku , whose roots she sees in freed slaves and settlers from Freetown (Sierra Leone) and the West Indies . [2] [3] The novel Costly Prices from 2005 deals with the topics of tourism in Gambia and Gambian bumsters . [3] [4]
From 2010 to 2018 she was treasurer of the Writers' Association of The Gambia (WAG).
Works
- The Views of an Onlooker , 1991 (compilation of their news articles, published in Nigeria).
- A Cherished Heritage: Tracing the Roots of the Oku Marabout , Serekunda (Gambia), Edward Francis Small Printing Press, 1999.
- Costly Prices , Ahmadiyya Muslim Centenary Press, 2005.