Media & Journalism
Fatou Jaw-Manneh
Journalist and commentator
A Gambian legacyFatou Jaw-Manneh is a Gambian journalist and commentator whose work continued from the diaspora after she left following the 1994 coup. Arrested during a return visit in 2007, she became the subject of international free-expression campaigns. Her writing has examined authoritarianism, public accountability and the experience of exile.
THEIR MARK ON HISTORY
01Received the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression in 2007.
02Continued publishing commentary while living in the United States.
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