Tumbulu, the Only Daughter

About the Book

This book is a rare testimony of a fascinating and thrilling biography of the only daughter of a privileged Gambian couple in Faraba Banta village. Tumbulu was raised under excessive and indulgent parental attachment, and she was not well accustomed to the myths and the traditions of the Mandinka culture as other girls are. In the dawn of her adulthood, clouds darkened the horizon over her as challenging mishaps circumvented her life—a life her mother created. “I told you so,” her mother said when time witnessed her most awkward predicament that rendered melancholic boomerang on her family.

About the Author

Bakary Camara is a Gambian, born on 10 October 1960 in Faraba Banta, West Atlantic Coast Region. He completed his primary school education in his native village in 1974 and completed his secondary school education at Armitage High School in Janjanbureh in 1979. He served the Department of Cooperative Development and the Gambia Cooperative Union Ltd as cooperative inspector and commercial officer respectively. He also served some trading companies and NGOs in media work, social marketing, and agricultural marketing. He is studying combined social sciences at the Open University in the United Kingdom, where he resides happily with his family in London.