{"id":50292,"date":"2023-12-30T19:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/the-award-past-winners"},"modified":"2023-12-30T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:31:17","slug":"the-award-past-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/the-award-past-winners","title":{"rendered":"The Award: Past winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>It was The Gambia News and Report Magazine that started The Man of The Year Award in 1992 with the conferment on Amadou Samba, the chairman of Gacem, the first cement company in the country.<\/b><\/p>\n

The award was later renamed to the more gender sensitive and politically correct Person of Year and now Gambian of The Year. The winners over the years represented a broad spectrum of the Gambian populace including men, women, the young and the old, the rich and the famous, kora players and imams, doctors and politicians, urbanites and rural dwellers, presidents and opposition politicians and so forth. It has been a disparate lot but the one thing that unites them is their patriotism, altruism and sterling contribution to the common good. For several years and since his death, the award has not been given and it wasn\u2019t for lack of befitting recipients.<\/p>\n

We at The Standard felt that we should pick up from where Mr Conateh and The Gambia News & Report Magazine left, hence the decision to name and confer The Gambian of The Year 2020 Award.<\/p>\n

Swaebou has been gone for five years but his legacy endures and this award is a testament to that. He continues to inspire in life as in death.<\/p>\n

The Gambia Press Union remembered him thus: \u201cThroughout his career, he rendered selfless services to the journalism profession and the welfare of journalists. A man of integrity and decency, he dedicated his magazine to giving voice to the voiceless and the marginalised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcel Thomasi, who succeeded him as Director of Broadcasting said of him: \u201cHe was a very good journalist who wrote better than he spoke. He had this slant for writing but at Radio Gambia he showed great capacity for radio and would listen to all programmes for quality and ethical issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Minister for Information and Communication Infrastructure, Demba Jawo said Mr Conateh was instrumental in shaping his journalistic career.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn professional basis, we used to discuss a lot of issues. His advices were always useful. If anybody felt his departure, I am definitely one of them,\u201d he said at a memorial in 2019.<\/p>\n

Writer Seedy Bojang simply wrote of him: \u201cHe was the best person I ever worked with\u201d.<\/p>\n

Alagi Yorro Jallow, managing editor of the defunct The Independent newspaper who worked with Mr Conateh stated: \u201cHe lived an accomplished life of service to journalism and free press. Swaebou Conateh was a man of integrity and intellectual courage as well as a profound decency. People tell the dead to rest in peace; Swaebou was occupied with the living, living in peace in the service of the voiceless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swaebou Conateh was not just a journalist, he was also a writer who authored books and anthologies of poems as well as contribute to two of the seminal books on Gambian political historiography. Among them was the story of the People\u2019s Progressive Party, the PPP, Vox Populi, Pox Dei and President Dawda Jawara\u2019s memoir Kairaba.<\/p>\n

We dedicate The Gambian of The Year, 2020 Award to the memory of the man Pa Nderry Mbai of Freedom Newspaper called \u201cthe titan\u201d of Gambian journalism, Mr Swaebou Conateh.<\/p>\n

These are the past winners:<\/p>\n

1992 \u2013 Amadou Samba, Businessman<\/p>\n

1993 \u2013 Pa Sallah Jagne, Inspector General of Police<\/p>\n

1994 \u2013 Ebrahim Samba (1932\u20132016), Head, WHO Africa<\/p>\n

1995 \u2013 Lenrie Peters (1932\u20132009) Writer, surgeon<\/p>\n

1996 \u2013 Lamin Waa Juwara, Politician<\/p>\n

1997 \u2013 Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice president<\/p>\n

1998 \u2013 Bai Lamin Jobe, Head of Gamworks Agency<\/p>\n

1999 \u2013 Harriet Ndow (1926\u20132019) Educationist<\/p>\n

2000 \u2013 Karamo Touray, Imam of Brikama<\/p>\n

2001 \u2013 Ousman Conateh (1937\u20132020) President GFF<\/p>\n

2002 \u2013 Hassan Jallow, Justice of the Supreme Court<\/p>\n

2003 \u2013 Muhammed Jah, CEO of QuantumNet<\/p>\n

2004 \u2013 Deyda Hydara (1946\u20132004) Journalist (posthumous)<\/p>\n

2005 \u2013 Pa Sallah Jeng, Mayor of Banjul<\/p>\n

2006 \u2013 Bolong Sonko and Mustapha Njie, alias Taf<\/p>\n

2007 \u2013 Yahya Jammeh (1965) President<\/p>\n

2008 \u2013 Isatou Touray, Feminist activist<\/p>\n

2009 \u2013 Jaliba Kuyateh (1957) Musician<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 Dawda Jawara (1924\u20132019) Former president<\/p>\n

2011 \u2013 Fatou Bensouda (1961) Prosecutor ICC<\/p>\n

2012\u2013Solomon T Johnson (1954\u20132014) Anglican Archbishop<\/p>\n

2013 \u2013 Ibrahim Ceesay, Filmmaker and activist<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 Momodou Turo Darboe, Philanthropist<\/p>\n

2015 \u2013 Bakary Gassama (1979) Football referee<\/p>\n

2016 \u2013 Alieu Momar Njai, Chairman Electoral Commission<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 Not awarded<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 Swaebou Conateh (1944\u20132018) Publisher of The Gambia News & Report (posthumous)<\/p>\n

2019 \u2013 Not awarded.<\/p>\n

2020\u2013 Momodou Turo Darboe, Philanthropist<\/p>\n

2021\u2013 Adama Barrow, President of the Republic<\/p>\n

2022 \u2013 Karamba Touray, Former Auditor General<\/p>\n

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