Biographie de Muhammad Gassama
Muhammad I.S. Gassama as bor in Banjul, The Gambia, in 1947. H obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Arabi Literature from the Islamic Universi of Oumdurman, Sudan, in 1973. He also had a degree in English language from Cambridge, England, in 1979. Gassama started his carrer as a teacher of Arabic in 1973, and was appointed at the Gambia Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, as Consular Attaché from 1976 to 1978 and at the Gambia High Commission in London, UK, as Second Secretary/ Acting First Secretary up to 1980.
From 1986 to this date he works at the OAU/AU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a Translator and Reviser, and was thus a direct witness of the development of the Pan African organisation. He was the President of the Editorial Board of the "Forum", the magazine of the AU Staff Association, to which he was also a Secretary General until 2005. Gassama is also a prominent Arabist, a writer and poet in Both English and Arabic.
He published so far three books in English, besides a Poems Collection. He also published various articles both in English and Arabic in many newspapers in African and internationally.
