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SOPHIA PATHWAYS touch stone d. SOPHIA PATHWAYS Foundations of English Composition TouchStone 1 Title: The Gambia and Fatima Author: Bakary S Sonk0 Date: 10th September 2020. Informative Did you know that the Gambia is the smallest country in mainland Africa? With a land size of about eleven thousand square miles, the country is surrounded on the east, north and south by Senegal, and on the west the Atlantic ocean. The country gets her name from the river that divides the country into north and south the River Gambia. The Gambia is among the very few countries that have the article before its name the other notable country is the Bahamas. The word the Gambia is A corruption of the Mandingo word “Kambiya" which means the land of Kambi. The Gambia gain independence from Great Britain in 1965 and five years later it becomes a republic. Previously known as the British Gambia, the Gambia was one of the major slave ports in West Africa and the country is the Birthplace of the legendary slave Kunta Kinte whose life was immortalised in the book and film series Roots wrote by one of his descendant Alex Haley. Another notable former slave from the Gambia was the poetess Phillis Wheatley. The Gambia's Economy is heavily relied on Tourism, with Year-round sunshine and proximately 6 hours flight from any European country, The Gambia is a tourist Hot spot. The country is littered with a lot of tourists sits most notables are the Kachikally crocodile pool, the Fort Bullen at Barra point, Kunta kinteh Island, Slave House at Janjanbureh And the Makasustu Cultural park.