Hassoum Ceesay

Hassoum Ceesay
Born	1971 Banjul, The Gambia
Nationality	Gambian
Known for	Museum

Hassoum Ceesay (b. 1971) is a Gambian historian,Writer and museum curator at the Gambia National Museum.He is one of the sharpest and most prolific Gambian historians. He was features editor Daily Observer newspaper in Banjul and editorial writer from 1999-2006. He was Deputy Permanent Secretary and Director of Press Office of The President in Banjul from January 2008 to august 2008. As curator of The Gambia National Museum in the early 2000s, he curated numerous art and ethnography exhibitions. He is a well known face on Gambian TV where he frequently speaks on history topics and issues. He was curator of The Gambia National Museum from 1999 to 2008, and is currently Director of the Copyright office, The Gambia.

Education

Hassoum attended Armitage High School, Fourah Bay College College, University of Sierra Leone; St Mary's University Halifax, Canada where he bagged a BA in History in 1999; Post Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies University of Nairobi, Kenya 2003; and MA in African History University of The Gambia in 2009.

Publications

• Gambian Women: an Introductory History, Fulladu Publishers, Banjul, 2007. 135 pages. First, Second, Third and Fourth editions.
• Co-author Ceremonies of The Gambia, 2004, 100 pages
• Gambian Women: Profiles and Historical Notes, Fulladu Publishers, 2011, ISBN: 998399264-7, 120 pages.
• Co-editor A Guide to Historic Sites and Monuments Sites of The Gambia (Fulladu Publishers, 2012) ISBN 978 9983 95 574 3
• Contributing scholar on: ‘Dr Florence Mahoney’; ‘Fatou Khan’; ‘Louise Njie’; Sally Njie’; ‘Fatou Bensouda’ in Dictionary of African Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Emanuel Akyeampong, Oxford University Press, 2011.

In addition, he has published in peered review journals:

• Noegletek es tarsadami fejlodes Bathurstben, Gambia 1925-1965 (Hungarian) (Women and Social Development in Bathurst, Gambia 1925-1965) in AFRIKA TANULMANYOK, 2011 V. P.98-111, Journal of the Hungarian African Studies.

• ‘A character construction of Gabriel Roberts’ Trial of Busumbala in New Ndaanan, University of The Gambia Journal, January 2009, p.26-29
• ‘Conservation at the Katchikally Crocodile Pool’, Africa 2009 Bulletin, 2001
• Co-author ‘Wild Oysters, Female harvesters, and Mangrove Forests of The Gambia’ in State and Society in The Gambia, edited by Abdoulaye Saine et al., Africa World Press, 2012.
• Lead Researcher ‘Cultural Rights in The Gambia’, UNESCO Study, 2010.

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