Gabriel J. Roberts

Gabriel John Roberts was born in 1926 in Bathurst, today's Banjul. A graduate in education in Britain, he made his career in teaching, rising to become director of education of the Gambia, then chaired the Independent Electoral Commission. A poet and playwright, he staged the Gambian plays presented in Dakar in 1966 and in Lagos in 1977, and was among the founders of the literary review Ndaanan in 1971. He died on 20 July 2026, at a hundred.

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• TheatreThe Trial of BusumbalaGabriel J. Roberts · 1970Literature