Authors: Aloa Ahmed Alota and Demba Ali Jawo
DATE AND PUBLISHER: 2008, The Point Press
Gunmen who are still at large killed the late Deyda Hydara, a Gambian
journalist and publisher of The Point newspaper, in a drive-by shooting on the night of Thursday, 16 December 2004.
In this very readable and absorbing account of his life, beliefs and achievements, two journalist colleagues who worked closely with the late Deyda Hydara provide an invaluable and well researched book for all those interested in contemporary African affairs, and in the struggle of the modern African press especially in their pursuit of the right to freedom of expression and in the fight against corruption, tyranny and for human progress.
Aloa Ahmed Alota is a Nigerian journalist based in The Gambia and Editor at The Point Newspaper.
Aloa Ahmed Alota is editorial writer at The Point newspaper in Banjul, The Gambia. He is also executive secretary of the Deyda Hydara Trust (DHT), a organisation set up for the promotion of press freedom campaign across Africa. He is currently working on his first novel A Killer Also Dies, a story of a cub reporter who stumbles on a plot to kill her editor.Demba Ali Jawo is a former president of the Gambia Press Union (GPU).
For more information, visit: http://www.deydahydara.com
