Media & Journalism

Demba Ali Jawo

Editor, commentator and author

A Gambian legacy

Demba Ali Jawo is a Gambian journalist whose career included the Daily Observer, The Independent and the African Press Agency. He also led the Gambia Press Union. Following the 2017 political transition, he served as information minister and later published the autobiographical book A Date with Destiny.

THEIR MARK ON HISTORY

01Appointed Minister of Information and Communication in 2017.

02Published A Date with Destiny in 2019.

EditingPublic communicationMemoir

SOURCES & FURTHER READING01Biographical record 02Committee to Protect Journalists: guest author

Photo: ITU Pictures from Geneva, Switzerland · CC BY 2.0. Cropped or framed for display. View original photograph. Demba A. Jawo (right) with ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. Photograph: ITU / D. Woldu.

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