Hassoum Ceesay
| Hassoum Ceesay | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
1971 Banjul, The Gambia |
| Nationality | Gambian |
| Known for | Museum |
Hassoum Ceesay (born 1971) is a Gambian historian, writer and museum curator at the Gambia National Museum. He is one of the sharpest and most prolific Gambian historians.
Life
Hassoum Ceesay attended Armitage High School, and Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He continued to Canada's Saint Mary's University, in the Nova Scotia capital of Halifax, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1999. He was the features editor at The Daily Observer newspaper in Banjul and editorial writer from 1999 to 2006. He was curator of The Gambia National Museum from 1999 to 2008, curating numerous art and ethnography exhibitions. He gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2003. From January 2008 to August 2008 he was Deputy Permanent Secretary and Director of the Press Office for President Jammeh. In 2009 he gained a MA in African History from the University of the Gambia. In 2010 he was Lead Researcher on a UNESCO study of cultural rights in the Gambia. He is currently Director of the Copyright office, The Gambia. Hassoum is credited for the establishment of the newly created Copyright Collecting Society of The Gambia.
Hassoum Ceesay is a well-known face on Gambian television, where he frequently speaks on history topics and issues.
Works
Books
- Gambian Women: an Introductory History, Fulladu Publishers, Banjul 2007. 135 pages. First, Second, Third and Fourth editions.Recommended Reads West Africa Exhibition 2009Indiana University Purdue[1]
- (Co-author) Ceremonies of The Gambia, 2004, 100 pages
- Gambian Women: Profiles and Historical Notes, Fulladu Publishers, 2011, ISBN 998399264-7, 120 pages.
- (Co-editor) A Guide to Historic Sites and Monuments: Sites of The Gambia (Fulladu Publishers, 2012) ISBN 978 9983 95 574 3
- Contributing scholar on: ‘Dr Florence Mahoney’; ‘Fatou Khan’; ‘Louise Njie’; Sally Njie’; ‘Fatou Bensouda’ in Dictionary of African Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Contributing scholar on : 'Ada Beigh'; 'Hannah Mahoney'; 'Wilfred Davidson Carrol'; 'Matarr Ceesay'; 'Mama Tamba Jammeh'; John Colley Faye'; 'Cecelia Mary Ruth Cole'; 'Momodou Musa Njie'; 'Kemintang'; 'Marion Foon'; 'Maryann Gabbidon'; in 'Oxford African American Studies Centre: The Online authority on the African American Experience, edited by Ed.[2]
Articles
- 'Conservation at the Katchikally Crocodile Pool', Africa 2009 Bulletin, 2001
- 'A character construction of Gabriel Roberts' Trial of Busumbala in New Ndaanan, University of The Gambia Journal, January 2009, p. 26-29
- Noegletek es tarsadami fejlodes Bathurstben, Gambia 1925–1965 (Hungarian) (Women and Social Development in Bathurst, Gambia 1925–1965) in AFRIKA TANULMANYOK, 2011 V. P.98-111, Journal of the Hungarian African Studies.
- Co-author 'Wild Oysters, Female harvesters, and Mangrove Forests of The Gambia' in State and Society in The Gambia, edited by Abdoulaye Saine et al., Africa World Press, 2012.
- Chief and Protectorate Administration in The Gambia:1894-1965’ in Leadership in Colonial Africa, Baba G. Jallow(ed), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014.
- The Impact of the Crises on Institutions in Guinea Bissau and the Sub-Region’ in Patrick Chabal and Toby Green(eds), in Studies on Guinea Bissau 1998-2013, Hurst, London, 2015