Swaebou Conateh

Swaebou Conateh was born on 27 March 1944 in Dippa Kunda. The first Gambian to graduate in journalism, at the University of Kansas in 1968, he worked for the American press and then joined Radio Gambia, and headed the country's news and broadcasting for twelve years from 1974. He then served the Pan-African News Agency in Lagos and Dakar, founded his own agency and a weekly newspaper in 1992, and in 1994 declined the ministerial post offered to him by the military regime. He died on 28 November 2018.

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• PoetryGreat Wrinkles Up the Sky's SleeveSwaebou Conateh · 1981Literature